Sans Rancune! / with no regrets ..

Friday september 4 ...

a lovely Belgian/French film, Sans Rancune! / with no regrets ..

1955, at a boy's boarding school .. for the sons of men who died in the war .. Matagne has been kicked out of a few places .. he is in his final year .. the school seems to run on rather permissive principles .. well, no, not like Summerhill .. but, rather, a kind of mutual respect between students and teachers, a preference for made-up traditions .. such as using the greeting "sans rancune" ..

the lit prof (nicknamed Vapeur because his "exams" are like steam engines) tells the class to stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down .. and then he yells at them that they are sheep, and why are they following insane orders .. and that 50 million people died because a bunch of sheep followed insane orders ..

matagne decides that this lit prof might be his father whose plane was shot down during the war, 15 years earlier .. presumed dead, but no body ever found .. his father, who'd left him and his mother when he was 2 ..

where Vapeur inspires Matagne to do some sleuthing, he also inspires him to become a writer ..

this bit is in French .. the director discusses the movie

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kasf_tournage-de-sans-rancune-dyves-hanc_shortfilms

if it happens to play in your neighbourhood (hey, my local readers, it's opening in Montreal) it's worth a night out ..

 

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