Synopsis
La scuola (1995) is a bittersweet Italian comedy-drama from Daniele Luchetti, available to watch online on iFILM. It's the last day before summer break at a high school on the rough edge of Rome, and a literature teacher is taking stock of the whole year.
Silvio Orlando plays the teacher who treats his pupils like his own kids and quietly worries about where life will carry them. Around him swirls a staff room full of burnout, crushes and clock-watchers. Out of faculty meetings, truancy and hallway rows, Luchetti builds a sharp, affectionate portrait of the Italian school system — funny one minute, deflating the next.
There are no heroes or villains here, just real people in shabby classrooms, and the film never stops to lecture. Orlando and Fabrizio Bentivoglio make a fine double act of tired but unbroken grown-ups. Stream La scuola online on iFILM.
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