Zero for Conduct (Zero De Conduite)
1933·France·49 min.
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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.
DirectorJean Vigo
ScreenwriterJean Vigo
MusicMaurice Jaubert
CinematographyBoris Kaufman
CastLouis Lefebvre·Gilbert Pluchon·Gérard de Bédarieux·Constantin Goldstein-Kehler·Jean Dasté·Robert Le Flon
Original titleZéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
Also known asZero de Conduite·Zero for Conduct