Sunday, October 9, 2011

70. Zero de Conduite

Zero de Conduite
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:

7 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. Another one that I can't really remember much of so I guess I got nothing out of it either.

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  2. OK, 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.
    * OK, me just not liking kids, and super especially badly behaved kids. But 'm just a grumpy old git.

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    1. Ugh. Yes. I have to review A Christmas Story soon too!! Blech.

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  3. Erm, I don't get it. I had no problem with other surrealist films, but this was, erm, erm, I don't know.

    I 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.

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    1. No one seems to be too fond of this film.

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  4. I 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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