Film· 1935· Drama

Merlusse

by Marcel Pagnol

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The Holdovers

Film · 2023

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Alexander Payne has acknowledged Pagnol's Merlusse as the starting point: a stern, unloved teacher left at a boarding school over Christmas with the boys who cannot go home.

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Merlusse

Monsieur Blanchard, a stern, one-eyed teacher whom the pupils call Merlusse, is left in charge of the boys who cannot go home from their boarding school in Marseille for Christmas. Over the holiday the boys come to see the kindness behind his gruffness.

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