Grande Ecole
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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.
Movie Review: piss poor script
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw this film on the festival circuit and was astonished by how bad it was. The acting and production is very fine and layered but the film can't decide if it's a school coming of age story or a sexual-political drama or a coming out story. Because of this it fails on all fronts and leaves so many unjustified sex scenes that come across as flat and boring. The final scene's dialogue is abosolutely awful. I remember the audience members around me making sighs of frustration as the film attempted to wrap itself up in philosophy that was gathered from a borrowed coffee shop introduction to philosophy book. I'd like to revisit the movie at some point and see if there really was anything there but I doubt it.Movie Review: Pretentious
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is pretentious and totally false in the development of its characters. It seems to result from some sort of intellectual head trip somewhere (in France, of course). The nude scenes do not justify such a waste of time.