Film· 2023· Comedy

The Holdovers

by Alexander Payne

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Merlusse

Film · 1935

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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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The Holdovers

Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

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