Trinity Theatre & Arts Centre – Film Screening: Au revoir les enfants – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Trinity Theatre & Arts Centre

Website: https://www.trinitytheatre.net/events/au-revoir-les-enfants-12a

Address:
Trinity Theatre
Church Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 1JP
United Kingdom

The story is set in January 1944 at an exclusive Catholic boys boarding school near Fontainebleau. Twelve-year-old Julien (Gaspard Manesse), a bright, popular pupil at the school, is asked by headmaster Père Jean to look after a new boy, the shy, sensitive Jean Bonnet (Raphaël Fejtö). As the boys slowly become friends, finding a shared love of reading and music, Julien discovers that Jean is Jewish and that he is being kept hidden from the Nazis by the priests of the school under an assumed name. Within an exceptionally moving, yet deliberately unsentimental central story, Malle blends fact with fiction to create notable characters such as Julien’s glamorous mother and Joseph, the much-taunted kitchen helper who runs a black market with the boys.

Tickets £8

French with English Subtitles

Running time: 105 Minutes

Contains moderate sex references, moderate bad language, scenes of smoking

No one younger than 12 may see a 12A film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.

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