A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Acting
Lino Ventura's volcanic restraint, Adjani's fire — collision course.
Direction
Pinoteaublurs comedy and tragedy until you can't breathe laughing.
Director
Claude Pinoteau
Lino Ventura
Jean Douléan
Annie Girardot
Hélène Douléan
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Douléan
Nicole Courcel
Madeleine
Francis Perrin
Marc Morillon
Jacques Spiesser
Rémy Abeillé
Michel Aumont
Charvin
Robert Hardy
Robert Dickinson
Nathalie Baye
Christine Abeillé
Xavier Gélin
Xavier
Georges Wilson
Pierre
Annick Alane
Jean's housekeeper
Paul Bisciglia
Waiter
Robert Dalban
Caretaker of the school
Francis Lemaire
Inspector
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Isabelle Adjani was nineteen, already magnetic enough to steal from Lino Ventura — she'd dominate French cinema for decades.
1974 France: post-1968 generational rifts, the 'crise du logement' making young couples desperate to cohabit — the slap lands on historical faultlines.
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