An anarchic, surrealist classic with great charm about a rebellion in a boy's boarding school. Its only forty minutes long, and it's a lot better than Lindsay Anderson's "If."

A slightly surreal experience. I wouldn't call it dreamlike, yet I don't really know what else to call it. It's all so slightly hazy, and slightly offputting, and charming and bizarre. If the strange internal logic of the film isn't offputting enough, there's also that it seems to be stuck inbetween the silent and talky eras in a similar way to how the film seems stuck between dream and reality. It's unnverving and rather good fun.

I'm a bit taken with the playful, inventive, (tragically) short career of Jean Vigo. The charm of this particular one is inescapable.

Sinemanin önemli filmlerinden ama günümüz filmleriyle mukayese edilemez. Etmek zaten yanlis olur. Her neyse bir okuldaki ögrencilerin ögretmenleriyle mücadelesini anlatiyor. Finalde cocuklar okulu tarumar ediyor. Yatakhaneyi dagitiyor. Bir de tacizci ögretmen var. Olaylar onunla basliyor vs. Anarsist film. Sevmedim.

#252

A fun romp that pretty much influenced every ensuing film of its kind.

I simply do not like this movie. It's french, it's slow, I don't find the kids believable and the midget school principal with the squeaky voice is just plain ridiculous. The plot is pretty thin I mean come on! The boys plan to set up a revolt and then succeed by throwing with pillows of the roof!!! WTF!? It is way to slow for me and the boys just end up annoying me.

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These pre-New Wave French movies are all so stodgy

A visually interesting and innovative film about a group of misbehaving kids in a boarding school. It has good moments, but a lot of it also feels choppy and dated, and the adults are all pretty much charicatures.

# 263

In the spirit of anti-authoritarian revolution, a playful rallying cry for rebellion and non-conformity. I still find the film a bit sloppy, but perhaps sloppy is suitable for this material. Vigo has a lot of fun with form, making the structure as anarchic as the content, including surreal sequences that embody the heroes with magical properties. Again, we have some masterful visual work. The movie is very witty and subversive, although it's a work I respect more than I enjoy.

It's good and laid some important groundwork for If and The 400 Blows and the like, but it isn't any less dated or schmaltzy than any other early comedy.

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One of the best films ever about children among children. The inspiration for _if..._.

"A short film but a little classic from the late French filmmaker."