Name: Les enfants rouges
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-01-22
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Jonathan Borgel, Garance Mazureck, David Kajman

In the stations or on the sidewalks ,they were waiting,waiting.....

Please please don't put us through the same old Nouvelle Vague treadmill again.

In spite of a nice black and white cinematography ,it's intellectual self-indulgence ;"avant-garde ,isn't it French for b....s...... ? John Lennon once said.

"Les Enfants Rouges" sees the director succumb to the sixties highbrow directors' vices: a vague script ,or no script at all ,for the story is told in the conditional by an infuriating voice over :we are bombarded with a language logorrhoea all long the way ;people out of the social context , spending most of the time navel-gazing;we never see them work (unless Garance's short baby-sitting scene counts) or study (as for the students,they speak of changing the world ,but they do not have the slightest problem to make ends meet (their parents must provide them with the money)

Alexandre's final act does not make sense ,but as it does not happen,it might have happened,that changes everything!

French-language cinema, whether in France, Québec, or other Francophone regions, explores cultural identity, social change, and the tension between the individual and society. French cinema is not only celebrated for its intellectual experimentation and auteur traditions, but also its success in mainstream comedy, romance, and commercial entertainment. In Québec, films often focus on questions of language, belonging, and community within a distinct cultural landscape.

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