In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
Direction
Vigo's dreamlike slow-motion sequences feel like pure cinematic joy.
Cinematography
Boris Kaufman captures rebellion with lyrical, floating camera work.
Director
Jean Vigo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in France until 1945 for 'undermining authority'; later influenced Truffaut's The 400 Blows.
Vigo filmed his actual wife as the mother in drag; the 'gay theme' was so coded that censors missed it entirely.
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