A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor and Rousseau expert to try to explain how this boy could possibly know so much about a philosopher who died over a hundred years before he was even born. What unfolds is a story about friendship, nature, and the unequal distribution of wealth.
Acting
Liam Kim's deadpan wisdom steals every scene
Cinematography
Jura mountains look illegally gorgeous
Writing
Rousseau quotes woven into actual plot mechanics
Director
Christophe Chevalier
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