Le nez dans le ruisseau (2012)

Director
Christophe Chevalier

Main cast
Sami Frey; Liam Kim; Anne Richard

Genres
Drama, Family

Description
A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor and Rousseau expert to try to explain how this boy could possibly know so much about a philosopher who died over a hundred years before he was even born. What unfolds is a story about friendship, nature, and the unequal distribution of wealth.


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