A movie outing : « La Tête en Friche » by Jean Becker

Today we have seen the film "La tête en friche" by Jean Becker. Germain Chazes – acted by Gérard Depardieu – is a man in his 50’s who is not well educated. He’s been humiliated since his childhood both by his mother and his teachers and spends most of his time at the pub, drinking .His mother hates him, she is crazy.

One day he meets an old lady : Margueritte (with a double T) in a park where she regularly feeds birds (played by Gisèle Casadesus) .  Margueritte has a passion – books, and with patience and conviction she teaches Germain to read and enjoy books. For example, she reads out loud “La Peste” by Camus and he imagines the scenes.

Little by little a very strong relationship starts between those 2 characters and when Margueritte is transferred  to Belgium by her relatives Germain realizes that he can’t live without her and takes her back to where she used to live.

The moral of this story is that everybody has a form of intelligence  deep inside, we just need to believe in ourselves.

Les élèves de TV1 et Madame LUTZ, professeur d'anglais