Grande Ecole
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Movie Reviews of Grande Ecole
Movie Review: Great film - pity about the shipping
Summary: 4 Stars
Loved this film, it's an open and interesting look at the way people handle desire. I particularly appreciated the underlying message that love should be regarded as just love, not labeled and neatly put in a box to marginalise people.
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Movie Review: Interesting and great!
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent love story... great cast, great acting! You also have to take a look at the DVD extras. Would definitely recommend buying this one for your collection.Movie Review: poor little rich kids
Summary: 3 Stars
The temptations of wealth and status, with the added whip of homophobia, send some of this films characters into a headlong dash towards lives of conformism and banality, where they sucumb to the diseases which the rich and the near rich usually fall prey to - racism, hatred for working people, abject submission to greed and authority, homophobia, and misogeny.
Louis could go on write advice for the President of France exploring torture - just how much is permitted in this or that case. He's so lacking in ethics that he could be nominated for Attorney General. Will Paul always be torn between love and money and will he ever enjoy life? Will Agnes ever learn how to scheme ? The question is - who cares? As their world, and our stomachs, turn, the petty lives of these petit bourgeois babies are scarcely interesting.
With the sole exception of the character of Mécir, played by Salim Kechiouche, none of the actors either look youthful or portray the passions and brashness of youth, which, in a film about students is a drawback.
Watching the film, You might be tempted to feel sorry for Paul, Louis and Agnes if you hadn't met them in real life - where their corruption and venality make them despicable and ultimately, expendable, from a social point of view.
Movie Review: Lots of Nudity and Pretentious Language
Summary: 3 Stars
Chances are that those drawn to the DVD cover of Grande Ecole will want to see plenty of skin and they will, female and especially male. The gender-bending plot concerns a French burgeois guy at a business school who is torn between three lovers--his human rights activist/literature student girlfriend, his upper-class French male roommate (who's engaged), and the hot, sexy, and sensitive Arab guy whose mother cleans at the school. The four characters start to cheat, tease, seduce and sleep around, and philosophize in a irrealistically pretentious manner. It all leads to a final confrontation scene in which the French characters speak in some extremely pompous and irrealistic manner, even for a French film.
The cast, however, is very good and physically appealing. There's also plenty of eye candy, especially male frontal nudity and gay male scenes, none of which is hardcore. Oddly, the most touching and moving character in Grande Ecole is also the most stereotypical: Mecir, the sexy Arab that seems to pop up in every French gay-male movie in the last decade or so, hopelessly longing for a French man and teaching the French that there's more to life than upper-middle-class values.
Movie Review: Rather nice. Worth a viewing.
Summary: 3 Stars
This gets good reviews from my friends, though I lost interest mid-way through. A view of the upper-class French world, and the homosexual underworld where class differences don't matter so much as youth and muscles. A bit cliched here and there, but nothing too unpleasant. Plenty of nude shots to keep you interested. As much hetero as homo action from the glimpses I caught of the movie. But the hetero action is decidedly uninspired, as you might expect.
The French are forever making films about love triangles.