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1988 |
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DRAMA
RITES-OF-PASSAGE
FOREIGN
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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France |
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C |
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103 |
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A small boy (Gaspard Manesse) befriends another (Raphael Fejto) but betrays him.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Louis Malle's richly observed, semi-autobiographical film about growing up in Nazi-occupied France. Some may find the plot thin and lacking in surprise, and the pace is unduly slow; but this must still rank as one of the great rites-of-passage movies for its realistic, unsentimental view of childhood. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the London Critics' Circle award as Foreign Language Film of the Year.
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"I reinvented the past in the pursuit of a haunting and timeless truth."
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, Raphael Fejto 
