The Learner
By Samuel Collardey
Country: France
Language: French
Original title: L' Apprenti
Casting: Mathieu Bulle, Paul Barbier
Production year: 2008
Runtime: 01h25
Production company: Lazennec
The apprentice is Matthieu Bulle, a tall, gangly 15-year-old boy in an agricultural high school with divorced parents who divides his classes half-time apprenticing with a dairy farmer named Paul Barbier. In the Haut-Doubs region of France, close to the Swiss border, the boy learns, and he and Paul bond.
Venice 2008 – Critics Week Grand Prize
Namur 2008 – Best First Feature
