Un petit Parisien

The movie follows a 10-year-old boy Benji, his two brothers and a father in a wartime France.

The father has trouble keeping his pants on with women and as the boys' mother dies at the start of the film, he starts to neglect the boys and their needs gradually as he spends most of the time womanizing and trying to work as a columnist. So the film is about relationships and human behaviour, and how kids understand these things different to grown-ups.

The actors do their job very well: Benji's role is challenging as he has lot to say but the actor is very natural and interact very believably with his hot-tempered yet intellectual father Claude and his mistresses Dora and the somewhat naive Maité.

Although this is TV film, it oozes quality in direction, acting and art direction and could very well have been shown in cinemas.