Synopsis
The Path of Excellence (La Voie royale, 2023) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Frédéric Mermoud directs the story of a farm girl chasing a place at France's most prestigious engineering school. Suzanne Jouannet plays the lead.
Sophie has a gift for numbers, and her maths teacher pushes her to act on it: leave the family farm and enroll in a tough science preparatory class. In the city she meets new people and tastes her first real failures, but mostly she runs into a brutal contest. Her rivals have been groomed for these exams since childhood, while Sophie has to catch up and prove that a seat at the Polytechnique belongs to someone like her.
The film is honest about how a dream of studying turns into a fight to cross from one social class into another. A quiet, observant coming-of-age piece with no melodrama. Stream The Path of Excellence (2023) online on iFILM.
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