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Graduate First

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Teenagers in northern France sit for the baccalaureate.

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Audience Member This is the first film I've watched by Maurice Pialat and perhaps it isn't the right place to start. A mostly plot-less but engaging look at a bunch of 19-year-olds finishing their schooling in northern France (a town called Lens). These kids are largely aimless, living in a depressed economy, without too many options aside from getting married or leaving. They sleep late, kick around the local café/bar, and sleep with each other. Pialat largely avoids commentary and the parents who do make an appearance are reasonably easy-going about everything. A philosophy teacher turns up now and again to offer encouragement and the film's "message" about having to unlearn everything you already knew (when learning philosophy... but it may apply to becoming an adult too). The young non-professional actors are mostly interesting and their improvisation seems natural enough -- spending 80 minutes of time with them was fine. You have to draw your own conclusions about whether these kids are destined for drudgery due to poor choices or whether this is a natural state of affairs for late teens/early twenties youth who nevertheless get their acts together (somehow). Pialat doesn't stick around to find out. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved this a lot. Pialat is great with these teenage stuff. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Teenagers in northern France sit for the baccalaureate.
Director
Maurice Pialat
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 12, 2017
Runtime
1h 26m
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