School's Out - Comments & Tips

A bleak story that should have held me in vice grip, but just didn't. Maybe it would have hit different if I watched it in 2018, I don't know.

_School''s Out_ / _L''heure de la sortie_ is a flick tease. It comes up to you in a dark cinema, looking very seductive and mysterious while it insinuates its way into your imagination. But soon after it says all the right things, red flags start popping up because it doesn''t come through on any of them. It just keeps talking in circles, repeating the same things without going anywhere, only making incessant promises that become more dubious as they become more numerous. Then, in the end, it doesn''t fulfill any of its promises or answer any of the questions it posed, it simply makes a bizarre joke that''s not even funny and when the lights come up you''re almost ashamed to have liked it at the beginning. Oh well, at least Laurent Lafitte is like climate change: getting hotter and hotter.

Psychological thriller or a treatise on the environment? It''s a mixture of both, and it works quite well on both levels. Worth a watch, although be warned, the real life footage used in the film is quite upsetting.