A serious job on France 2: too clean and predictable (criticism)

After the hospital, school. Thomas Lilti continues his overview of public services by mixing humor and social awareness in a pleasant, but too mechanical, way.

A serious profession is broadcast for the first time unencrypted on television, this Sunday evening on France 2, and will be available the next day for free streaming on the France.TV website. What is Thomas Lilti’s film worth, notably starring Vincent Lacoste, François Cluzet and Adèle Exarchopoulos? Here is the review from Première.

After approaching the question of health from different angles (medical studies, hospitals, country doctors, etc.), Thomas Lilti looks at education. The universe changes but the method and ambition remain the same: it is about telling the reality of an institution through human portraits, in a tone that is both documented and light, political and feel-good. The difference is that if, before Lilti, fiction about the world of health was rare, films about school abound in French cinema. The feeling of déjà vu is therefore quite strong here from the outset…