‘Bad Spelling’ writes at Alliance Francaise

‘Les fautes d'orthographe’ (Bad Spelling) (90 Min) a story of a 15-year-old son of a couple who run a boarding school for troubled kids will be screened at Alliance Francaise at 3 pm on Tuesday, September 25 at Alliance Francaise, Barnes Place, Colombo-7.

Directed by Jean Jacques Zibermannthe the film depicts the story of Daniel, the overweight and socially inept son of Pierre and Genevieve. Daniel is having a hard time with the physical and emotional trials of adolescence, and things don't improve a bit for him when his folks enroll him in their school…"

France, 1967. Daniel Massu decides that he should be treated like any other boy at the boarding school run by his parents. However, life in a shared dormitory proves to be harder than he imagined. Bullied by his classmates, he begins to resent his parents' coolness towards him. Things come to a head when one of the few friends he makes is expelled from the school. Daniel contrives a scheme to get even with his tyrannical father…