Wednesday April 20th 2016

France 1987, 104 minutes
Director: Louis Malle 
Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette.

Upper class brothers Julien and Francois Quentin return from their school holidays to their catholic boarding school in the French countryside. Despite some initial hostility Julien befriends  new student Jean Bonnet. It slowly becomes clear that Jean is in fact Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. An act of betrayal by one of the school servants leads the Gestapo to visit the school, and investigate the students and their teachers. A touching and moving account of the loss of childhood innocence, based partly on Louis Malle’s personal wartime experiences, and described by one critic as ‘his most beautiful movie and his last great one’.