It All Starts Today
- Philippe Torreton: Daniel Lefebvre
- Maria Pitarresi: Valeria
- Nadia Kaci: Samia Damouni
- Véronique ataly: Mme Lienard
- Nathalie Bécue: Cathy
- Emmanuelle Bercot: Mme Tievaux
- Françoise Bette: Madame Delacourt
- Christine Citti: Madame Baudoin
- Christina Crevillén: Sophie
- Sylviane Goudal: Gloria
- Didier Bezace: inspector
- Betty Teboulle: Mme Henry
- Gérard Giroudon: Mayor
- Marief Guittier: Daniel's mother
- Daniel Dela Besse: Marc
- Jean -Claude Frissung: Lefebvre colleague
- Thierry Gibault: policeman
- Philippe Meyer: Councillor
- Gerald Cesbron: M. Henry
- Michelle Goddet: Jimmy's mother
- Stefan Elbaum: Jimmy's uncle
- Nathalie Desprez: Mme Bry
- Françoise Miquelis: Mme Duhem
- Frédéric Richard M. Bacheux
- Johanne Cornil - Leconte: Mme Bacheux
- Sylvie Delbauffe: Woman with baby
- Lambert Marchal: Rémi
- Kelly Mercier: Laetitia
- Mathieu Lenne: Jimmy
- Rémi Henneuse: Kevin
It starts today, is a French film drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier from the year 1999.
Action
Daniel Lefebvre is director of Léo -Lagrange preschool in a city in northern France. The school is in a deprived area of the area and many of the children grow up in families on desolate. The unemployment rate among parents is high. The work of teachers, in turn, is not only supported by the state: Social Worker jobs being cut, while more and more problematic cases to be processed. The teacher must always accommodate more students in their classes to compensate for missing points. Daniel once again cooked up to his superiors with his energetic action against the authorities and politicians to again and again. It supports among others the College to submit a petition for better teaching conditions. Daniel's own family is only partially a place of retreat from occupational stress: He lived for two years with the artist Valeria together, but the relationship between her son Rémi and Daniel disturbed. Daniel, in turn, has an ambivalent relationship to his own father, who has never loved him since childhood.
One day the five-year Laetitia Henry remains as the last child in the school. Her mother, who appears after a long time with a stroller is very drunk, collapsed on the playground and eventually runs away. Daniel is left with Laetitia and her little brother. He is counseled by his colleagues to turn on the police, but turns to Daniel to the children emergency in order to avoid sanctions for the Henry family. However, the local Researcher reacts helpless and hangs up, so that Daniel brings the two children on your own home. Here he finds a desolate household and a drunken mother. He learns that the family has for a long time due to debt no electricity in the home and even in sub-zero temperatures can not heat. In addition, the family can not afford to pay for school meals, Daniel finally paid secretly out of pocket. He organized the family some food and a small alcohol stove.
One morning, Daniel finds the school building devastated. All the rooms were dirty, teaching material is destroyed and there are no electronic devices. It turns out that three children had a "fun" and allowed Daniel is shocked that Rémi was one of the perpetrators, and even got the key for the action. As Valeria presents her son to account, he blames them, but he is growing up without a father. Daniel manages the help of parents and his colleagues to bring the school into a day in front. He also learns social worker Samia know who supports him at work with the families. It consists, among others, to ensure that the Henrys quickly obtain current and react when their content is to be teilgepfändet. Daniel, in turn, invites Sir Henry to show the children his truck, which has a lifting crane. The children are excited and also Mr. Henry delights in the unusual activity. For Daniel suddenly everything comes together: his father suffers a breakdown and need to be hospitalized. In addition, it is checked for work by an inspector who examines his teaching methods. Although it certifies the inspector, suitable for children to teach, but criticized Daniels ' rebellious vein ". When the inspector is gone, Daniel responded curtly, as he wants to talk to Mrs. Henry. She still has no electricity and was expelled from another colleague of Daniel. When he now refers to another colleague, Mrs Henry goes without saying a word. The next day the police find her body and her two children - they have killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills. Daniel is shocked and makes his actions questioned. He would love to give up everything, but convinced him Valeria them to continue. Daniel continues his commitment to children, so the little Jimmy, who is beaten by his mother's friend. The fact that Jimmy is taken from the family, stoking the hatred of his parents against Daniel. Valeria holds in these moments to him, and Daniel finally makes her a marriage proposal.
Valeria recognizes that rotate Daniels thoughts about a task of his profession. It proposes to organize a celebration at school. It will contain a lot of color to make you forget the sadness of the building. With residents and parents pour sand in the gym on, build Bedouin tents from paints, the paint the children, and make the yard countless bottles on which they have filled with colored water. A local band plays, the students are dancing mothers sell homemade cakes. The children look curious or shy into the camera.
Production
It begins today was among other students of the school Derrière les shark found in Anzin, Nord-Pas -de -Calais, rotated. In the cemetery of Anzin more scenes of the film emerged. It starts today witnessed on 16 February 1999 at the Berlinale in 1999 and ran its first performance on 12 March 1999 in French cinemas on. On 25 November 1999, he was also in the German cinemas.
Synchronization
Criticism
The filmdienst called It starts today a " touching, cinematic complex reflection on unemployment and the future of a society that no longer even able to convey the basic forms of interpersonal communication to their children. ", The main character of Daniel Lefebvre was " idealized moderate ... " thereby making the movie a " quite realistic plea for responsibility and commitment of individuals " will. For Cinema It was starting today, " one of those rare films that tell with an urgency which one can not escape. " Der Spiegel found that director Tavernier with " passionate rage" describe how the policy let the weakest members of society down. The film will thus rather " an inventory and an appeal ."
Awards (selection)
At the Berlinale 1999, the film was in competition for the Golden Bear. He won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury ( competition ) as well as the FIPRESCI Prize (competition). Also in 1999, Philippe Torreton was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actor. On the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián in 1999, the film won the Audience Prize and won the Ecumenical Film Prize of the Norwegian Film Festival.
In 2000, Philippe Torreton was nominated for a César for Best Actor and received a Prix Lumiere for Best Actor. The Spanish Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos It starts today nominated in 2000 for the award for the best foreign film. In addition, the 2000 movie received a Goya Award nomination as Best European film.