Zero for Conduct
1933
Sigh, another surrealist film. I need Woody Allen to explain these to me (I need Woody Allen for a lot of reasons). At least they are always short; this one clocks in at around 45 minutes.
In high school, I tried many times to rally my friends into a rebellion. I mean, if you think about it, really think about it, high school is basically a prison. All I proposed was optional attendence and trigonometry classes and people thought I was crazy. Oh, well.
The above paragraph, believe it or not, had a point. This film is about young boys rising up against the tyrannical teachers. It is extremely weird and something that has to be seen rather than explained. Now, I have fallen in love with many "artsy" films before, but surrealist movies have never fallen into that category. I tend to just find them rather pointless and boring. Maybe I am just not getting it at all and if anyone wanted to leave comments and it explain it to me, I would be delighted by your pretentiousness. Otherwise, I just thought it was stupid.
RATING: **---
Interesting Facts:
Aren't I a treat today?
This film was banned in France until after World War II.
Available on YouTube. First part:
If there is a point to this one I missed it. I even saw it twice but got none the wiser. It is just not going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteAnother one that I can't really remember much of so I guess I got nothing out of it either.
DeleteOK, thanks you two. This is supposed to be a great film, and I felt guilty for not linking it that much. I'd put it down to me just not liking films with kids*, and especially badly behaved kids. I just get them so wrong and side with the authorities.
ReplyDelete* OK, me just not liking kids, and super especially badly behaved kids. But 'm just a grumpy old git.
Ugh. Yes. I have to review A Christmas Story soon too!! Blech.
DeleteErm, I don't get it. I had no problem with other surrealist films, but this was, erm, erm, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine why something like this may include elements which inspire other people though. But put it all together and it didn't make a film for me.
No one seems to be too fond of this film.
DeleteI did like the little headmaster boy though, he was pretty cool. At least this page can now reflect something good about it.
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