Grande Ecole
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alice Taglioni, Elodie Navarre, Gregori Baquet, Jocelyn Quivrin, Salim Kechiouche Director: Robert Salis Brand: Wellspring Media INC Writer: Robert Salis Producer: Humbert Balsan Writer: Jean-Marie Besset DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 110 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-11-09 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Fox Lorber Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Grande Ecole
Movie Review: Dreadfully pretentious; riddled with clichés
Summary: 1 Stars
This film is ostensibly about the lives of students attending an elite business school. It is quite evident that the filmmaker doesn't know the first thing about corporate finance or business education. But that doesn't matter because, despite the title, the school is little more than a backdrop; and the characters, who supposedly were admitted because of their aptitude in business, haven't the foggiest idea what they are doing, much less evidencing interest in their education.
Instead, it centers on a provincial lad who feels out of place and takes action to rid himself of his bourgeois manners and morals. Apparently not content with his girlfriend Agnes (played by the gorgeous Alice Taglioni), he engages in a liaison with an Arab workman (the point of which is rather obscure) and pants after his male roommate. Several times references are made to the French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault, all in a transparent effort to lend the film an "aura" of intellectual legitimacy. Ultimately, however, the film is beyond dull. It is dreadfully pretentious and riddled with clichés that would make even the most "politically correct" blush.