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Au Revoir Les Enfants [1987]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Gaspard Manesse, Francine Racette
directed by Louis Malle

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• beautiful and captivating
  A beautifully filmed, directed and acted story of friendship, closeness, cruelty and betrayal, in a convent boarding school in WWII occupied France.
  There is not much "action", but the film kept me gripped from the first minute to the last. It left me with a sense of having been there, and has been staying with me for days.

• "An uneventful yet touching depiction of war, friendship and betrayal"
  Second World War saga "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" recounts the childhood experiences of director Louis Malle during the latter stages of the German occupation of France. After the defeat of 1940, French society was forced to endure foreign occupation, domestic collaboration and a radically new way of life. Within this context we meet Julien (Gaspard Manesse), a young boy coming to terms with his own personal traumas namely, the absence of his parents and the monotonous routine of his boarding school life. more info

• A gradual build up to a memorable climax
  Set in Second World War occupied France, the story slowly introduces us to the personalities and interactions among a groups of boys living in a select, Catholic boarding school. At first the viewer may feel that nothing much is happening but watching the day-to-day life of the main characters makes them matter all the more and the climax of the film all the more memorable.

• Au Revoir Les Enfants
  At last we have a DVD version of this excellent film.
  A boys painful childhood, experiencing the agony of his newly formed friendship with a Jewish boy in France during WWII.
  This is a must have to your DVD collection and trust me you will not be disapointed.

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