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1969 |
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DRAMA
RITES-OF-PASSAGE
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111 |
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Schoolboys rebel against the authoritarianism of an English public school.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Heavily influenced by Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct, Lindsay Anderson's film is a high point of 60s cinema. The changes from colour to monochrome, and naturalism to surrealism, are distracting, and the politics are simplistic; but the film caught the 60s spirit of revolt like no other. I particularly enjoyed it, since although If... was filmed elsewhere the school being satirized was very recognizably Tonbridge, which both David Sherwin and I attended. The school is, of course, intended as a symbol of Britain itself. Anderson continued his allegorical satires upon British society with two further films, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital. |
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