Through a successful fiction followed by a debate and a documentary, M6 deciphers this scourge which strikes so many students.
THE school harment is a scourge whose ravages, in France as elsewhere, are evident today. Institutions are taking action. Channels and platforms relay it through fiction, debates and documentaries.
Freely adapted from Brush against the wallsa moving testimony from the singer Tessæ, Breathe , by Jérôme Cornuau, recounts the descent into hell and the return to life of a high school girl, saved at the last minute by her music teacher and by her dream of becoming a singer. If everyone – recent news has unfortunately shown – does not recover, Tessæ, in real life, got through it. She is a recognized artist. Charlie Loiselier, also a singer (discovered in “The Voice Kids”) and actress (the horror series Marianne), lends him his features, facing Calogerowho takes his first steps as an actor in the role of the teacher.
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Sensitive and relevant story
“I never imagined doing television. I’m a singer, not an actor. Everyone has their own job, right? But this project came to me. And what he says about adolescence, its difficulties, its possibilities, the role of adults and the importance of music in the psychological space of children convinced me immediately”, he confides. Both work wonders. The first moves with a simple look. The second embodies quiet strength, the one through whom calm returns after an emotional storm that only victims of school bullying experience. The fiction, in two parts, is well balanced. It emphasizes the inadequacy of a poorly trained and poorly armed system against a phenomenon which, according to a Senate report published last January, affects to varying degrees more than a million students each year.
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And points out, once again, the hell of social networks (school harment and cyber harment are inseparable) to stage a relevant and sensitive story, capable of enlightening not only the educational teams in the support, but also the parents in the education, in the listening, in the detection of harment. She can also speak to teenagers themselves, showing the absolute necessity of saying what destroys them without being afraid of exposing themselves more than they already are. Not easy when you’re twelve, thirteen or fifteen years old… The broadcast of Breathe will be followed by a debate in the presence of the Minister of National Education and Youth, Gabriel Attal, in particular, and a new documentary. An essential evening for Charlier Loiselier because, she concludes, “we can never talk enough about the suffering of those who face harment”.