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Rated: NR
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Subtitles in English; Color;
HiFi Sound, Digital Sound
Feature length: 110 minutes.
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When nine-year-old Olivier disappears, his mother, who dotes on him to
the exclusion of her husband and 11-year-old daughter, is beside herself
with grief. Enlisting the help of a police inspector to find her son,
she refuses to admit the possibility that he might be dead. Six years
later the police inspector finds an adolescent male prostitute who he
believes to be the missing Olivier, and the boy is "reunited" with his
family. The mother is ecstatic, but the husband and daughter -- always
jealous of the mother's attention to Olivier -- have reservations. When
the boy begins making sexual advances toward his sister, the atmosphere
of tension and mystery increases.
Based on a true account in a French newspaper.
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Starring: François Cluzet, Brigitte Roüan,
Jean-François Stévenin, Grégoire Colin,
Marina Golovine, Frederic Quiring, Faye Gatteau, Emmanuel Morozof,
Carole Lemerle, Jean-Bernard Josko, Lucrèce La Chenardière,
Madeleine Marie, Françoise Lorente, Alexis Derlon, Mathias Jung
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Director: Louis Malle
Rated: PG
Edition Details:
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Subtitles in English; Hi-Fi Stereo; Number
of tapes: 1
Feature length: 103 minutes.
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ASIN: 630121613X
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The long shadow of Malle's autobiographical memoir of occupied France
continues to fall heavily across subsequent representations of World
War II, boarding school, and male adolescence -- in fact, it would be
difficult to identify a recent film that addresses these concerns and
does not, in some substantial way, echo Au Revoir Les Enfants.
The straightforward, unsentimental, gutsy Enfants finds its
12-year-old protagonist, Julien Quentin, sheltered from the conflict
in a Catholic school. His classmate Jean, a new arrival, becomes first
a competitor, then a beloved friend. Jean, however, hides a secret
from his classmates and the Gestapo; evenly, subtly, Malle creates an
atmosphere of hovering and inescapable danger.
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The plainspoken courage with which Malle tells his story remains
wholly engrossing. Cinematography is masterful and drunk with
childlike wonder, alternating claustrophobic, wood-paneled church
interiors with vivid, occasionally frightening outdoor vistas.
And never is it more affecting than in the chilling scene where
Justin gets lost in the woods during a seemingly innocent game of
capture-the-treasure; trees and rocks flash by the running boy
with an austere, impersonal beauty.
-- Miles Bethany
Winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars)
in 1997, including Best Picture.
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