Both a director and a French teacher, Teddy Lussi-Modeste wears two hats.
When he is not filming, he resumes his classes in the 93.
Pas de vaguees
, his third film, co-written with Audrey Diwan (
L'Événement
) which is released in theaters this Wednesday March 27, is inspired by an ordeal that he crossing itself.
That of a teacher accused of harassment by a student, threatened by his big brother and abandoned by an overwhelmed institution, which above all “does not want to make waves”.
The choice of thriller quickly became clear to them.
“With Audrey, it was not a desire at the start
,” he testifies, “
but it is the most sincere and the most realistic form of reflecting what happens when one is threatened with death.
This solitude that we go through, this tension, this growing fear, the professor experiences it in his flesh.”
Teddy Lussi-Modeste is not the only one to have chosen this narrative genre to tell the daily life of teachers on alert.
Because teaching is really no easy task...
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