Zero De Conduite
by Jean Vigo
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Actor: Jean Daste; Robert Le Fion; Du veronDirector: Jean Vigo
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 50 minutes
Release Date: 1994-12-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Timeless Multimedia
Studio: Timeless Multimedia
VHS Movie Reviews of Zero De Conduite
Movie Review: A film that broke the walls of the possible!
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on Vigo 's personal childhood experiences, this admirable, beloved and poetic work constitutes a superb and precise outlaw portrait of a boarding school. Vigo creates a claustrophobic world filled of tension in which the petty tyrannies of the school regime stand in sharp relief against the natural fantasy and tender delirium of the children. There is a lot of psychological insights, this landmark was banned in France until 1946.
If you really want to start a anthological collection, you must not ignore this milestone picture that in certain way would anticipate the French New Wave and influenced a countless films.
Jean Vigo was a monumental talent who missed too soon. His filmic heritage were just only two films, but his grandness is acknowledged all over the world and specially by the French Cinema that reserved every year a Festival in his memory.
A genius who shines with own light in the Universe of the supreme Gods of the Cinema
Summary of Zero De Conduite
It's hard to believe that this fantastical tale of a schoolboy rebellion was banned in its native France for 12 years following its initial 1933 release (for supposed anti-French sentiment). Perhaps the French authorities were remembering director Jean Vigo's father, a famous French anarchist who died in prison, or just concerned that Vigo was revealing too much of his own unhappy youth spent in boarding schools. They needn't have worried. Zero in Conduct is much more a childhood fantasy than a social critique, focusing on three particularly naughty boys who are constantly being threatened with a "zero in conduct" for their bad behavior. The rebellion in question is no armed revolt but a raucous pillow fight and a few stones thrown from a roof, all to the chant "Down with teachers, down with school." Filmed in magical black and white by Boris Kaufman--winner of the Academy Award for cinematography in 1954 for On the Waterfront (and brother of filmmakers Mikhail Kaufman and Dziga Vertov)--Zero in Conduct is a film for film lovers. Jean Vigo died in 1935, when he was 29 years old, leaving behind only three films. But his influence, strongly evident here in the surrealism and fascinating early special effects (including a drawing that springs to life on the page), long outlives him. Each year a filmmaker with "independence of spirit and quality of directing" is honored with the French award in his name. --Laska JimsenClassics VHS Video
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