Au Revoir les Enfants Page #5

Synopsis: In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Louis Malle
Production: Criterion Collection
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
PG
Year:
1987
104 min
9,363 Views


Is Greek hard?

- Not once you know the alphabet.

Are your parents in Marseilles?

My dads a prisoner.

He didn't escape?

And where's your mother?

You won't tell me?

- In the unoccupied zone.

- There's no unoccupied zone anymore.

I know that. Now lay off.

I don't know where she is.

She hasn't written in three months.

Happy now?

What are you two up to?

I have a cold.

Enough nonsense.

Go out and play.

Hippo's a bastard.

Always snooping around.

St. Thomas's proofs

of Gods existence don't hold water.

I don't agree.

Since we can imagine God,

he must exist.

Thats just sophistry.

At least Bergson seeks

transcendence in science.

Hey, I want to talk to you.

- Thats strong.

- Its the real thing, dummy.

Lets go somewhere else.

The monkeys will catch us here.

- Do me a favor.

- What?

Pass a note to your piano teacher.

- You're crazy! I'll get expelled!

- She won't say anything.

You're such a scaredy-cat.

Franois, whats a yid?

- A Jew.

- I know, but what exactly is a Jew?

- Someone who doesn't eat pork.

- Are you kidding me?

Not at all.

What have people got against them?

The fact they're smarter than us,

and they crucified Jesus.

Thats not true.

It was the Romans.

Is that why they have

to wear yellow stars?

- Will you take my letter to Davenne?

- No.

What do you want with her anyway?

- Never mind.

Be nice. I'll lend you my

Arabian Nights. Itll give you a hard-on.

Leave me alone!

You smell awful, Joseph.

Stop it, right now!

He called me a creep!

Thats enough now.

Calm down and go back to the kitchen.

"Down, Joseph!

To your kennel!"

I'm not a dog!

Stop it, D'Arsonval!

Damn, a cross.

Another wrong trail.

We have to get back to the crossroads,

quickly and quietly.

There must be another trail

at the fork.

I wonder where the others are.

Whats today?

January 17. Thursday.

You realize there'll never be

another January 17, 1944?

Never again.

Shut up and get a move on!

In 40 years,

half these guys'll be dead and buried.

Come on.

I'm the only one in this school

who thinks about death. Its incredible!

You're our prisoners.

Follow us.

We're gonna tie your hands.

There are two missing.

Over there! Its Quentin!

Wow!

I found the treasure.

The Greens win.

Didn't they catch you?

Yes, they tied me to a tree,

but I got free.

Bastards!

I found the treasure.

All by myself.

Are there wolves in these woods?

Its that way.

We go left. I'm sure.

- No, we go right.

- I told you, we go left.

Its the high wall

next to the church, right?

I know it.

We Bavarians are Catholic.

Good evening, Father.

Lost any children?

We looked everywhere.

Always playing the fool, Julien!

Thats not fair.

I found the treasure.

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Louis Malle

Louis Marie Malle (French: [mal]; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times. Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films. His most famous films include the crime film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), the World War II drama Lacombe, Lucien (1974), the romantic crime film Atlantic City (1980), the comedy-drama My Dinner with Andre (1981), and the autobiographical film Au revoir les enfants (1987). more…

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