Zero for Conduct + The Mischief Makers
Pleasure can be a form of dissidence, as shown by this cycle, opening up this new year with a playful and impertinent philosophical tone. The modern heirs of Diogenes, the tramp Boudu and the punks of Not Dead dynamite the bourgeois order or the consumer society. Very Happy Alexander and The Big Lebowski make a few enemies by establishing the pleasures of laziness as an art of living. Children rebel against their school's authority figures in the libertarian Zero for Conduct, while Ferris Bueller prefers to play hooky to discover the world in a different way. In Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude, life becomes a marvelous game of defying convention and death, while Mr. Chance in Being There becomes a political oracle by simply explaining how to cultivate his garden. The final word goes to the decadent intellectuals of The Decline of the American Empire and their dizzying introspection on the exhausting quest for happiness.
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In Nîmes, five kids are in love with a young girl and, out of jealousy, spend their time following her on dates with her boyfriend.
In France in the early 1930s, the boarders of a middle school revolt against the harshness and nastiness of the teachers and supervisors.
Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo was a French film director, the son of the anarchist Eugène Bonaventure Vigo, director of the newspapers La Guerre sociale and Le Bonnet rouge. Jean Vigo is best known for two films, Zéro de conduite (1933) and L'Atalante (1934). Earlier films include A propos de Nice (1929), starring Boris Kaufman and Taris, roi de l'eau. Considered "anti-French", Zéro de conduite was censored on its release. It was not authorized for screening until 1946. Among the first viewers of his films was François Truffaut, who said he owed his cinematic vision to him, and the film Les Carabiniers by Jean-Luc Godard (1963) was dedicated to him.
