Graduate First

Graduate First
Graduate First
Directed by	Maurice Pialat
Written by	Maurice Pialat
Starring	Sabine Haudepin
Cinematography	Pierre-William Glenn ; Jean-Paul Janssen
Edited by	Sophie Coussein ; Martine Giordano ; Arlette Langmann
Release date	14 September 1978;
Running time	86 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Graduate First (French: Passe ton bac d'abord) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Sabine Haudepin.^[1] The film is set in the north of France, in Lens, in a region profoundly affected by unemployment – the students, from modest backgrounds, try to forget their fears of what tomorrow will bring.

Plot[]

The film is an "unsparing portrait of teenage life in the French suburbs [that] sees a group of schoolfriends adrift at the end of the 1970s. There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs, group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to Paris – and few prospects of passing the Baccalauréat, the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world... to do what?

Marking the last work of Pialat's turbulent cycle of 1970s films, this is the sequel to the filmmaker's feature debut L'enfance nue (1969) – picked up again from a vantage point ten years on from the lives of the earlier film's protagonists."^[2]

Cast[]

Sabine Haudepin as Élisabeth
as Philippe
Annick Alane as La mère (as Annik Alane)
Michel Caron (tenor) as Le père
as Le vieux dragueur
as Bernard
as Patrick
as Valérie
Jean-François Adam as Le professeur de philosophie
as Agnès
as Charline
as Rocky, le marié
as Muriel
as Frédérique
as La soeur d'Élizabeth
as La femme du patron

References[]

^ Clarke Fountain (2011). "New York Times: Graduate First". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
^ Moviemail Monthly Film Catalogue September 2009

External links[]

Graduate First at IMDb

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[NY_Times-1] Clarke Fountain (2011). "New York Times: Graduate First". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2008.

[2] Moviemail Monthly Film Catalogue September 2009

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