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Zero for Conduct

Zero for Conduct

1933, Movie, 48min

So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of rebellion. Based on the director’s own experiences as a youth, ZÉRO DE CONDUITE presents childhood as a time of unfettered imagination and brazen rule-flouting. It’s a sweet-natured vision of sabotage made vivid by dynamic visual experiments—including the famous, blissful slow-motion pillow fight.

Country: France

Director:

Cast:

Pierre Blanchar,

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8.0

Reviews

Critic Kim Newman

rated

8

...manages to be subversive, charming and melancholy at the same time...

Read full review at Empire

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You can stream Zero for Conduct on: The Criterion Channel

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Zero for Conduct include Holiday, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Manhattan Love Song, Sylvia Scarlett, Karl Fredrik Reigns, City Lights.

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Zero for Conduct was released in theaters on June 21, 1947.