A handful of teenagers, boys and girls, escape from a reform school and go round town. They go to a ball, the owner asks them to pay the bill.This man is very unpleasant, he hates the youth of today and he is a racist.The incident turns into free -for-all, then into a massacre.The runaways become chased criminals. One of the boys want to take his mates to a deserted village where they would find a refuge. Policemen and farmers are hot on their heels .
Direction
Davis cranks tension until the screen vibrates.
Acting
Cornillac's feral charisma carries the whole damn thing.
Director
Robin Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1980s French 'jeune cinéma' exploring alienated youth; released same year as Mitterrand's social reforms, making its nihilism feel almost politically targeted.
Clovis Cornillac was 17 during filming; several chase sequences used actual local farmers who weren't told it was a movie until after.
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