Réalisation:
Jean VigoScénario:
Jean VigoPhotographie:
Boris KaufmanMusique:
Maurice JaubertRésumés(1)
C'est la rentrée scolaire dans un collège de province. La vie reprend avec les chahuts au dortoir, les punitions traditionnelles, les récréations, les études houleuses et les conflits avec l'administration. Un soir, les pensionnaires décident de se libérer de l'autorité des adultes et déclenchent une révolte. L'oeuvre la plus autobiographique de Jean Vigo dans sa version intégrale restaurée. (Gaumont)
(plus)Critiques (2)
These French coming-of-age movies have always had their charm. It would certainly be in bad taste to compare Jean's struggles with those of Nicholas, but the poetics are unfortunately identical. Little Nicolas was certainly not an anarchist, but his class had a number of similar aberrations.
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A film that earned its fame mainly in the 1950s, but definitely has a universal message that speaks to young people even today. Authority makes sense, but only if it's not absurd. Vigo succeeds in this in a great atmosphere of mild weirdness that can charm you. Or you will just watch it with incomprehension.
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