When Au revoir les enfants (Good-bye, children) by French director Louis Malle first came out in 1987 , I had a huge crush on Gaspard Manesse and I wanted to have his haircut, and I found Raphaël’s lips rather intriguing too. But even without Gaspard and Raphaël (or for that matter with two other boys in their place) Au revoir les enfants would still be one of the most compelling movies I can remember. This story of the friendship between two boys, one of them a Jew, in a catholic boarding school in 1944’s occupied France is as heartwarming as it is painful. A true classic of world cinema and definitely on the Top10 list of my all time favourites.
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