Au Revoir les Enfants
1988
| MK2 Diffusion | Release Date: February 12, 1988 |
Starring:
Benoît Henriet, Francine Racette, François Berléand, François Négret, Gaspard Manesse, Pascal Rivet, Peter Fitz, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Raphael Fejtö, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
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.
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William Faulkner once made the sage point that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Louis Malle’s Golden Lion winner Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) is a Second World War-set film very much guided in spirit by the US novelist’s musing on the febrile relationship between memory, time and individual and collective histories.
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Malle's film -- the most personal he's ever made -- goes out of its way not to tug on your heartstrings. Dealing with the most painful memory of his childhood in France during World War II, Malle has made a film of uncommon restraint. [15 Feb 1988, p.70]
The film (especially the first half) seems padded, formal, discreet. It's like watching a faded French classic.
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