Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb play two educators of autistic children and adolescents.
In 2019, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache directed Hors Normes, a great film about openness to difference and tolerance. In line with their previous works, it is the sum of their obsessions: the group at work (Our happy days), the associative environment (Samba) and the duets (Intouchables).
The story dates back to 1994, when Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, then summer camp instructors, had a memorable encounter with Stéphane Benhamou, creator of the association Le Silence des Justes, specializing in welcoming and inclusion of children and adolescents with autism. Overwhelmed by the energy and humanity of this man, the duo immersed themselves in his association, as well as a breast of the Relais Île-de-France, for two years, and thus gave birth to the characters embodied by Vincent Cassel (very moving in a counter-intuitive role) and Reda Kateb.
At their side, real autists, including Benjamin Lesieur, endowed with a very endearing personality, who embodies Joseph. By shooting a hand-held camera, Toledano and Nakache lead the viewer into this universe, filming autistic people, parents, referents, but also doctors, health officials and the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs.
With this mixture of humor and emotion of which they have the secret, the duo of directors once again seizes on a delicate social subject without ever falling into pathos. Winner of the César des lycéens, Out of Standards touches 2.1 million spectators in the heart when it is released in theaters.
Out of Standards by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache with Vincent Cassel, Reda Kateb, Hélène Vincent…
Tonight on TF1 at 9:10 p.m.