Au Revoir Les Enfants

Pros: Moving story based on real events; strong performances
Cons: Little in-depth insight into character and motivations

Au Revoir les Enfants was written and directed by Louis Malle based on his own experience as a child. One of the two main characters, Julien Quentin, is clearly Malle’s alter ego in this story. Malle is an accomplished director, best known ...

Pros: Excellent, moving story based on fact
Cons: None.

The difficulty of life under military occupation has been told shown many times in the movies but its fragility has rarely been better told than in "Au Revoir, Les Enfantes."Based on a real event in the childhood of director Louis Malle, the ...

Pros: Philippe Morier-Genoud, Gaspard Manesse, discovery of ignorance (not loss of innocence) storyline
Cons: Jewish stereotypes still exist, no real historical significance, portrayal of Nazis as decent

Hollywood has embedded in the minds of movie-goers for generations the horrific images of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. Though mainly dramatic presentations, there are instances where lighthearted moments are thrown in order to not leave the ...

Pros: Fantastic, real, true, life-like... wonderful!
Cons: It's in French, so some might be put off by not understanding the spoken language

It's not easy, as a member of a generation who has known no (very little) war, to comprehend the pain that haunts those who have. Those of us born in the 80s and later (from the United States) have never known the true fear that accompanies war. Au...

Pros: fine acting from newcomers, educational and compassionate story
Cons: some scenes move too slowly

I saw "Au Revoir les enfants" in the theatre when it was released in the USA in 1997. It blew me away, for lack of a better expression. Au Revoir...is the autobiographical telling of director Louis Malle's experiences at a Catholic boarding...

Pros: Good storytelling, important lessons
Cons: none really

Au Revoir Les Enfants is the sad story of Jewish persecution reaching into the Catholic schools of France during World War II. Filmmaker Louis Malle lived this story, the attempt to conceal a Jewish boy in a Catholic elementary school to save his life....

Pros: A Masterpiece, the cast to the background music plays together amazingly
Cons: A bit tragic, if you are very emotional you will cry

I didn't use to go out looking for foreign movies, they use to come to me . . . in high school french. I'll be honest I would have never rented this movie if is wasn't for that class and that has made me appreciate foreign films (as well as other...

Pros: It really happened and was very well presented.
Cons: It really happened and that is depressing.

This is a sad, sad, sad film. It's a little too real. If you have a day you just want to cry and cry and cry, watch it. If you want to think about the fact that it really happened and things compareable to this still go on in our world today, by all...