Fresh
From a modern perspective it seems delightful rather than revolutionary, dangerous and subversive.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Overview
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
Director and cast
- Jean Vigo Director
- Jean Dasté as Surveillant Huguet
- Robert le Flon as Surveillant Pète-Sec
- Du Verron as Surveillant-Général Bec-de-Gaz (as du Verron)
- Delphin as Principal du Collège
- Léon Larive as Professeur (as Larive)
- Madame Émile as Mère Haricot (as Mme. Emile)
- Louis de Gonzague as Préfet (as Louis de Gonzague-Frick)
- Raphaël Diligent as Pompier (as Rafa Diligent)
- Louis Lefebvre as Caussat
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Vigo's anarchic, disorienting vision of life in a French boarding school.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
These amorphous scenes, strung together by a vague continuity may be art but they are also pretty chaotic.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Fresh
A wholly original creation, the film walks a narrow line between surrealist farce and social realism.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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