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Bookmark this pagePasse ton bac d'abord (1979)
Director: Maurice Pialat
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From Time Out Film Guide
Best known in Britain for La Gueule Ouverte and Loulou, Pialat is a major, though unfortunately marginalised, French talent whose realist eye here lights on provincial teenage life, producing something like a cross between Ken Loach and a Gallic Gregory's Girl. The non-professional kids, on communal holiday from the title's exhortation to concentrate on their school exams, show a lively disregard for any notion of adolescent angst, despite dead-end prospects, while Pialat never indulges the exploitative clichés of the native genre of 'nostalgic' teen-sex low comedy.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczyk, Anik Alane, Michel Caron full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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