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Ode Conduite

Mounted French one panel, Zéro de Conduite is a 1933 French featurette directed by Jean Vigo. The film is a surreal and satirical portrayal of a children's rebellion at a repressive boarding school. It is based on the director's own experiences as a youth. The film was controversial at the time of its release and was banned in France until 1945. It has since become a highly influential work, inspiring later filmmakers like François Truffaut, who paid homage to it in his 1959 film The 400 Blows, and Lindsay Anderson, who was inspired by it for his film If.....