Film sur maria montessori biography

- Léa Todorov sheds light upon the genesis of the Montessori approach in a bold and novelistic first feature film about disability, difference and feminism at the beginning of the 20th century

"Degenerates who are threatening the pedigree of our country", "we can’t put them with the others and they cost a lot of money", "your performing monkeys". These are the kinds of comments which Maria Montessori had to contend with from the directors of the teaching establishment where she worked (in the shadow of a man) in Rome in 1900. But the young Italian doctor was intent on proving to her detractors that the people who were referred to as "idiots" or "deficient" at the time, and who are now known as "neuro-divergent" or children "with disabilities", could integrate society. Hers was a battle against prejudice which she led in tandem with a desire to liberate women from the many, many difficulties as