Ca Commence Aujourdhui (aka. It All Starts Today) stars Philippe Torreton as Daniel a schoolmaster of a nursery in a small French town. The local economy which depended entirely on coal production has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were closed. When their parents fall into utter discouragement or even poverty because of prolonged unemployment the children suffer the consequences. Daniel is confronted daily with difficult situations and he feels responsible to deal with them although they are outside the scope of his responsibilities. This is a... frustrating task: politicians are concerned with tightening their budgets bureaucrats in the intricate web of French social and educational services with their prerogatives utility companies with getting their bills paid; teachers social workers and policemen are overwhelmed. Daniel's relations with his parents but also with Valeria his fiance and her son are not entirely smooth either. He nevertheless soldiers on doing his best to educate the children of a severely disrupted society. [show more]
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Daniel Lefebvre (Phillipe Torreton) works as the principal of an infant school in the poverty stricken region of Hernaing. His attempts to serve his pupils are thwarted by the incompetence and laziness of the local authorities. He becomes involved with the struggle of a local family to escape from the squalor and depression of the area. However, all his efforts seem in vain, and his wife Valéria (Maria Pitarresi) grows resentful of his reluctance to have another child.
When a kindergarten teacher (Philippe Torreton) living in a rural town in France finds that the coal mines--the main source of income--have been closed down, his community changes, becoming increasingly poverty-stricken and decrepit. One day when a drunken mother collapses in the school yard, then abandons her children, Daniel decides to take the kids into his own home. That is the beginning of a critical, reactionary stand he decides to take against the deterioration of his village. A tough and endearing tale, director Bertrand Tavernier (ROUND MIDNIGHT) has made a fine picture with this one.
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