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The Criterion Collection presents

Nov 2008 Cruel Stories of Youth

We were all young once—but hopefully not like this! These stories of children in extremis take the popular genre of the childhood film to new levels of horror, abjection, and surreality. From Louis Malle’s tragic wartime memoir Au revoir les enfants to Peter Brooks’s adaptation of the classic parable of cruel youth Lord of the Flies to Catherine Breillat’s shocking Fat Girl, these quirky, beautiful films all depict young people on the edge—and feature some pretty astonishing performances too.

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El Espíritu de la colmena

The Spirit of the Beehive

Spain 1973

99 Min

Dir Víctor Erice

220 Views

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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À ma soeur!

Fat Girl

France, Italy 2001

86 Min

Dir Catherine Breillat

428 Views

  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Au revoir les enfants

Au revoir les enfants

France 1987

101 Min

Dir Louis Malle

152 Views

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

United Kingdom 1963

90 Min

Dir Peter Brook

138 Views

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Ratcatcher

Ratcatcher

United Kingdom 1999

94 Min

Dir Lynne Ramsay

827 Views

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Sweetie

Sweetie

New Zealand 1989

99 Min

Dir Jane Campion

863 Views

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Duane Jones

3Feb10

No updates since October...is something wrong?  

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Luke Moses

3Feb10

How about a French film festival before Criterion loses those StudioCanal films?  

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Vertigo

15Jan10

It would be nice to see some romance movies for February.  

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Punit S.

7Nov09

Watched all the 4 movies. My rankings/ratings: Onibaba - 8/10 Eyes Without a Face - 7.5/10 Sisters - 7/10 Carnival of Souls - 6/10 Now if we can have our share of November's movies, that would be great!  

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