2017 Blind Spots: Au revoir les enfants

In the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied France, Julien Quentin (Gaspard Manesse) returns to his Catholic boarding school following the holiday vacation. Upon his arrival, he meets the school’s newest student, Jean Bonnet (Raphaël Fejtö), who is treated as an outsider by his classmates due to his reserved nature. Though there’s initially some friction between the…

Films in 2014: February

February is always a very Oscar-filled month, what with TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar marathon and trying to catch up with tomorrow’s ceremony. Unfortunately, I didn’t do too well with the latter this year, but I at least finished watching all the films nominated for Best Picture this month. More of my thoughts on this…