The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat’s life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He’s a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She’s not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart. –IMDb
Joël Séria (1936) is a French filmmaker and writer. In the 1970s he was a cult director and left his signature on the successful children’s film Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (Mais non pas nous délivrez du mal, 1971). He later specialized in comedies and made such films like As The Moon (Comme la lune, 1977), The Two Crocodiles (Les deux crocodiles, 1987) and Marie, the Doll (Marie-poupée, 1976). In the 1980s and ’90s he worked mostly in television. Mumu (2010) is his cinematic return. —charmainecharmaine.blogspot.com