Famously, Lindsay Anderson's 1968 classic came out bang on time for the workers' and students' revolts across Europe at the end of that tumultuous decade. That alone implies a scope broader than its acutely realised British public school setting. But it stretches further still, drawing on Jean Vigo's 1933 classroom classic Zéro De Conduite, absurdist humour and poetic stylisations to match its marvellously musty English realism.
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