Monday, June 24, 2019

L’heure de la sortie (School’s Out)

L’heure de la sortie (School’s Out), dir. Sébastien Marnier, 2018, France, 103m, in French with English subtitles* • West Coast première • 💩🚨💩🚨💩🚨💩

L’heure de la sortie
(School’s Out)
The film begins with a 9th-grade teacher leaping out a window in the middle of class for no apparent reason. Pierre (pictured, rear left) is sent to finish the school year, but his students show themselves to be bizarre and nefar­i­ous in ways that defy understanding, and everything in the school and in the town, often photographed under the ominous presence of the twin cooling towers of a nearby nuclear power station, is weird, weirder, what the fuck, whyyyyy?

The entire exercise is ultimately pointless, offering zero insight into any of the characters or events, simply throwing disturbing images at the audience for shock value alone without the slightest hint of redeeming value. Quelle espèce de merde! Beyond that, the LGBTQ content is marginal at best. Truly a waste of nearly two hours of your time, definitely a film to AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

IMDb • *note: small portions in English without subtitles

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