Au Revoir Les Enfants

This autobiographical recounting of Malle's most tragic memory begins in 1944 at an all-boy Catholic school. A young boy befriends a new student whom the others feel is different. When he discovers the new student is a Jew, he tells no one and remains a true friend. Tragedy strikes when a school employee tells the Gestapo they are hiding Jews and the student is arrested and taken away.

"...[AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS is] a work that has the kind of simplicity, ease and density of detail that only a film maker in total command of his craft can bring off, and then only rarely....So moving..." - New York Times

Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1988" - New York Times

"...Very moving....The film is a testament to the power of the medium and to the art of the writer-director in dealing with an overwhelming personal experience..." - Los Angeles Times

"[The film works] miracles with an unknown cast of young players in a fact-based World War II-era story..." - Sight and Sound

"A brilliant Louis Malle comeback from fairly late in the director's spotty but brilliant career..." - USA Today

"[A] touching and sad story based on events from director Louis Malle's own childhood." - Widescreen Review

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