Maria Montessori (2023)

Name: Maria Montessori
Released: 2023
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Leïla Bekhti, Rafaëlle Sonneville-Caby, Raffaele Esposito, Laura Borelli

• Movies, Drama, History

• 100 min

Directed by: Léa Todorov
Casting: Jasmine Trinca, Leïla Bekhti, Rafaëlle Sonneville-Caby, Raffaele Esposito, Laura Borelli, Nancy Huston, Agathe Bonitzer, Sébastien Pouderoux, Pietro Ragusa, Raffaella Ducrey Giordano, Georgia Ives, Stefano Abbati, Gianfranco Poddighe, Renato Sarti, Patrizia La Fonte, Daniela Macaluso, Roberto Zibetti, Irina Valvilova, Luciana Castellucci, Emily Di Ronza, Claudio Giova, Enrico Basile, Giacomo Fadda
Countries: France, Italy
Premiere: 2023-11-05
Status: Released

Tags: courtesan, disabled child, disability, learning disability, teachers and students, women's rights, semi-biographical, out of wedlock child, handicapped, children learning, women empowerment, teaching children

Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.