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Learn by Heart

2015 film by Mathieu Vadepied

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ19824756 ↗
Source-derived summary

Learn by Heart (French: La Vie en grande) is a 2015 French comedy-drama film directed by Mathieu Vadepied. It was selected to close the Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Learn by Heart” as 2015 film by Mathieu Vadepied. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. The account is most persuasive where Learn, Heart and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2015 film by Mathieu Vadepied. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19824756. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Learn by Heart”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Learn by Heart primary sources, Learn by Heart archive and Learn research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Learn by Heart”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Learn by Heart” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.