Château rouge


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Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.



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« School isn’t for everyone. » In a scene from Château Rouge, this phrase, casually spoken by a student at Georges Clémenceau Middle School in Paris’s Goutte d’Or neighborhood, cuts straight to the heart. Public school may be, in principle, a pillar of equality, but it is already in adolescence that it can instill in young minds a sense of loneliness and exclusion. How can one not be moved?

The fruit of remarkable observational work, in the purest tradition of cinéma vérité, Château Rouge—discovered within that treasure chest that is ACID, Cannes’ parallel selection—is one of those films that, beneath its apparent simplicity, in fact brims with reflection, nuance, and richness.

As the students face a decisive year in which they must choose their educational paths, they also confront the limits of their dreams and the harsh determinism of life in a disadvantaged neighborhood—yet in their smiles they carry a striking faith in the future. With extraordinary sensitivity, refusing any judgment or simplification, filmmaker Hélène Milano delivers a work as immersive as it is moving, staying as close as possible to these young people and their teachers, caught in the heart of a system that offers them so few options.


Helen Faradji
Director of Programming
Quebec City Film Festival


  • Français

    Français

    1h47

    Language: Français
  • English

    English

    1h47

    Language: English
    Subtitles: English
  • Année 2024
  • Pays France
  • Durée 107
  • Producteur TS productions
  • Langue French
  • Sous-titres English
  • Résumé court A school year in a Paris middle school. Carrying both their carefree spirit and their scars, the teenagers must grow up.
  • Ordre 1
  • TLF_Applismb_CA 1
  • Date édito CA 2025-09-19
  • Rail-perso-home 1

« School isn’t for everyone. » In a scene from Château Rouge, this phrase, casually spoken by a student at Georges Clémenceau Middle School in Paris’s Goutte d’Or neighborhood, cuts straight to the heart. Public school may be, in principle, a pillar of equality, but it is already in adolescence that it can instill in young minds a sense of loneliness and exclusion. How can one not be moved?

The fruit of remarkable observational work, in the purest tradition of cinéma vérité, Château Rouge—discovered within that treasure chest that is ACID, Cannes’ parallel selection—is one of those films that, beneath its apparent simplicity, in fact brims with reflection, nuance, and richness.

As the students face a decisive year in which they must choose their educational paths, they also confront the limits of their dreams and the harsh determinism of life in a disadvantaged neighborhood—yet in their smiles they carry a striking faith in the future. With extraordinary sensitivity, refusing any judgment or simplification, filmmaker Hélène Milano delivers a work as immersive as it is moving, staying as close as possible to these young people and their teachers, caught in the heart of a system that offers them so few options.


Helen Faradji
Director of Programming
Quebec City Film Festival


  • Français

    Français


    Duration: 1h47
    Language: Français
    1h47
  • English

    English


    Duration: 1h47
    Language: English
    Subtitles: English
    1h47
  • Année 2024
  • Pays France
  • Durée 107
  • Producteur TS productions
  • Langue French
  • Sous-titres English
  • Résumé court A school year in a Paris middle school. Carrying both their carefree spirit and their scars, the teenagers must grow up.
  • Ordre 1
  • TLF_Applismb_CA 1
  • Date édito CA 2025-09-19
  • Rail-perso-home 1

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