Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
Julien Quentin is a gifted student at a catholic high school in Fontainbleau. After Christmas vacation of 1944, the Father Superior presents a new classmate, Jean, to the students. At first jealous of Jean's talents in music and his studies, Julien becomes intrigued by this somewhat distant, introverted student who receives no visitors, no letters, and is not obliged to attend mass.
With : Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand
Screenplay : Louis Malle
Image : Renato Berta
Sound : Jean Claude Laureux
Editing : Emanuelle Castro
Screenplay : Louis Malle
Image : Renato Berta
Sound : Jean Claude Laureux
Editing : Emanuelle Castro
Production : MK2, Stella Films, RAI, NEF Filmproduktion
Distribution: Pyramide
Distribution: Pyramide
When Louis Malle was twenty, he went off to shoot The Silent World (Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1956). Then came Elevator to the Gallows, with Jeanne Moreau in her first leading role, which established him personally as a filmmaker, followed by other critical and box office successes (or controversies) from The Lovers to A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Murmur of the Heart to Lucien Lacombe. After his American period (Pretty Baby and Atlantic City), he returned to France to make his most autobiographical film, Goodbye, Children. "The memory of that experience haunted me my whole life. It could've been the material for my first film, but I kept it hidden deep inside like some painful secret. In any case, it was that event that made me want to become a filmmaker, in other words to find a way of expressing myself that allowed me to understand the world around me, while placing myself in front of particularly difficult human situations." Louis Malle