Director: Robert Salis
Country: France
Year: 2004
Runtime: 110 minutes
Language: French with English subtitles

GRAND ECOLE is a stunning evocation of contemporary life among rich young people in an exclusive French school. While Paul (Gregori Baquet) is ostensibly the film’s focus, the narrative is actually constructed around a group of characters all equally important and all of them beautiful. It’s sort of a French version of Friends, but with fewer laughs, more talk, and much more sex. The sex is hetero-, homo-, and bi-. Paul loves Louis-Arnault and Agnes and Meclir (a younger Arab boy). GRAND ECOLE is complex and extremely erotic, a French take on sexual and religious politics and on class distinctions. It would probably be rated R for strong sexual situations and nudity. ~ Nick Salerno

Principal Cast: Grégori Baquet, Jocelyn Quivrin, Alice Taglioni, Elodie Navarre, Arthur Jugnot

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