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Four Wise Monkeys

2025 Drama
8.0 / 10 · TMDB

Antoine, a forty-year-old literature teacher, discovers a family archive in the basement of an old house. Among letters from the First World War, he finds the diary of his great-grandfather, who refused to fight. Instead of donating the documents to a museum, Antoine begins reading the entries aloud to his students, disrupting the school curriculum. His colleagues are outraged, the principal threatens dismissal, but the teenagers, encountering a personal perspective on history for the first time, ask questions that have no ready answers. The 2025 drama explores how private memory clashes with official history, and what happens when the past ceases to be just a paragraph in a textbook. The film balances on the edge of an intimate story and a social statement, depicting a quiet revolution within the walls of an ordinary lycée.

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Original Title Le 4ème singe
Year 2025
Country France
Genre Drama
Director Xin Wang
Rating TMDB: 8.0/10 (1 votes)

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The director employs static frames and long takes, generating a feeling of documentary observation. Dialogues often occur off-screen, forcing the viewer to focus on the listeners' reactions.

Those who appreciate films where moral ambiguity simmers beneath a calm surface will find much to contemplate. What lingers is a quiet unease about the stories we choose to preserve and those we let fade. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Xin Wang

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In a sunlit classroom during a free period, with the faint sound of distant chatter.

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