School’s Out

France • 2019

Movie poster for 'School's Out' directed by Sébastien Marnier, featuring a young woman with dark hair and eery eyes, surrounded by two others with similar eyes, all over a dark background.

In this dread-soaked cerebral thriller from filmmaker Sébastien Marnier (Faultless, The Origin of Evil), a teacher throws himself from a classroom window before the terrified eyes of his students. Despite the tragedy, six of them remain oddly cool and unemotional. Pierre (Laurent Lafitte), the new substitute teacher, notices the hostile, strangely violent behavior of this close-knit clique. Precocious and unusually smart, the six teens seem to be up to something..... Pierre becomes obsessed and is quickly in over his head as he's sucked into their dark vision of a doomed future. 

With an atmosphere of suffocating paranoia and a killer soundtrack from Zombie Zombie, School’s Out is a Kafkaesque fable of youth failed by the generations before them... 

Sébastien Marnier
Sébastien Marnier, Elise Griffon
Christophe Dufossé
Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel, Pascal Greggory

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104 minutes
French, English
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2.35:1
5.1

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  • “A masterpiece.”

    Beth Daley

    The Conversation

  • “A dread-inducing dark fantasy.”

    Dave Canfield

    Screen Anarchy

  • “A stylish existential thriller that’s part Dead Poets Society, part Village of the Damned, sprinkled with a dose of Take Shelter and served with a side of Children of the Corn.“

    Rafael Motamayer

    Bloody Disgusting

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