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- 1988
- PG
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 1988
- PG
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Summary A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Directed By: Louis Malle
Written By: Louis Malle
- 1988
- PG
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 1988
- PG
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Au Revoir les Enfants
7.9
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Summary A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Directed By: Louis Malle
Written By: Louis Malle
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
88
89% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It has the subtlety and devastating impact of Renoir’s prophetic classic Rules of the Game, and it is suffused with the calm, detached tragic irony and inevitability of the ancient Greek plays.
It's a work that has the kind of simplicity, ease and density of detail that only a film maker in total command of his craft can bring off, and then only rarely.
It remains breathtakingly good. There is a miraculous, unforced ease and naturalness in the acting and direction; it is classic movie storytelling in the service of important themes.
Louis Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants is more than his wartime memoir; it is an epitaph to innocence.
Part dream, part nightmare, the film vividly remembers a traumatic moment in time that cannot be forgotten.
By many other directors' standards, Au Revoir would be a major achievement. But Malle has reached higher. If he'd made his childhood movie earlier in his career -- when he didn't have the sense to be so dispassionate -- it might have packed a meatier punch. Now it's just a deftly aimed poke.
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Production Company
Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF),
MK2 Productions,
Stella Film,
NEF Filmproduktion & Vertrieb (I),
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Soficas Investimages,
Images Investissements,
Sofica Créations,
Rai 1
Release Date Feb 12, 1988
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating PG
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
César Awards, France
• 7 Wins & 9 Nominations
