Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303184197
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6303184197
Label: Timeless Multimedia
Manufacturer: Timeless Multimedia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Timeless Multimedia
Release Date: December 01, 1994
Running Time: 50 minutes
Sales Rank: 1836
Studio: Timeless Multimedia
Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1947
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It's hard to believe that this fantastical tale of a schoolboy rebellion was banned in its native France for 12 years following its initial 1933 release (for supposed anti-French sentiment). Perhaps the French authorities were remembering director Jean Vigo's father, a famous French anarchist who died in prison, or just concerned that Vigo was revealing too much of his own unhappy youth spent in boarding schools. They needn't have worried. Zero in Conduct is much more a childhood fantasy than a social critique, focusing on three particularly naughty boys who are constantly being threatened with a 'zero in conduct' for their bad behavior. The rebellion in question is no armed revolt but a raucous pillow fight and a few stones thrown from a roof, all to the chant 'Down with teachers, down with school.' Filmed in magical black and white by Boris Kaufman--winner of the Academy Award for cinematography in 1954 for On the Waterfront (and brother of filmmakers Mikhail Kaufman and Dziga Vertov)--Zero in Conduct is a film for film lovers. Jean Vigo died in 1935, when he was 29 years old, leaving behind only three films. But his influence, strongly evident here in the surrealism and fascinating early special effects (including a drawing that springs to life on the page), long outlives him. Each year a filmmaker with 'independence of spirit and quality of directing' is honored with the French award in his name. --Laska Jimsen
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A film that broke the walls of the possible!
Based on Vigo 's personal childhood experiences, this admirable, beloved and poetic work constitutes a superb and precise outlaw portrait of a boarding school. Vigo ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful, surreal view of the life of young children
Jean Vigo excels in presenting life as a sort of surreal dream, with bits of humanity scattered throughout. In 'Zero In Conduct', it seems he finally gets to live out ... Read More
Rating: - Strange and wonderful
Imagine a film directed by a small child who was also a cinematic genius, or by a Martian who had never seen a movie except "L'Age D'Or" and the complete works of Charlie ... Read More
Rating: - Vigo = Genius
This is the best film about the beauty of revolt. The pillow fight scene is the best, and I might add that this film made my school years .... much more understandable, as ... Read More
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