La Très Très Grande Classe is a 2022 French comedy film directed by Frédéric Quiring.
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Plot
Sofia is a French teacher in a difficult high school. Mistreated by her students, it is full of joy that she announces to her class her following mutation by telling her students the piece of her mind. But shortly after, her mutation is suspended by her high school because of another teacher with whom she finds herself in competition. The problem is that this one is a perfect teacher, with a perfect class and a perfect resume. With such a competent and students full of revenge, Sofia is forced to all the subterfuges, including the low blows to obtain the mutation of her dreams.
Cast
Melha Bedia as Sofia
Audrey Fleurot as Mrs. Delahaye
François Berléand as Mr. Picard
Vincent Lecuyer as the head of the high school
Arié Elmaleh as Benoît Hunault
Nissim Renard as Sam
Nathalie Besançon as Miss Lannoy
Élie Semoun as Raf
Vinciane Millereau as the jury
Tiguidanke Diallo as Elykia
Matteo Salamone as Enguerrand
Reception
The film was not well received by critics. In addition, only a few of them gave it a review. For La Voix du Nord, the film was described as "too lazy". Le Journal du Dimanche stated that "Melha Bedia confirms her comic talent in that social fable who, by performing expressions that are too cartoonish, wants to remind the mission of the school. We are less convinced by the gesticulations of Audrey Fleurot, as annoying as absurd in the role of a horrible clone of Cruella".
For Télérama, the performance of Melha Bedia is "fair", but that is not enough to compensate a "generalized caricature, rancid jokes and good feelings in spades, a film that rather gives the envy to skip the classes". Le Parisien sumps up its review in only a few words as "a comedy as unlikely as annoying".
Box-office
For its first day of broadcast in France, the film made 36,440 entries (including 10,269 in preview) for 477 copies. The film is overtaken in the ranking of other new films by One Piece Film: Red (267,631 entries) and followed by Nope (36,205 entries).
After one week of broadcast, the film reached 168,103 viewers and is ranked 8th at the box-office of the week, behind Top Gun: Maverick (180,658 viewers) and before Ducobu président ! (97,550 viewers). For its second week of broadcast, the film is ranked last at the box-office with a total of 123,282 additional entries, behind Thor: Love and Thunder (136,930 entries).