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Revolution, British style. Malcolm McDowell takes on the forces of repression at his boarding school in Lindsay Anderson and David Sherwin’s rebellious classic.
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Director
Lindsay Anderson
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With
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
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UK 1968. 111min
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35mm (21 and 28 May) + Digital (6, 16, and 24 May)
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Certificate
15
The first film in Anderson and screenwriter David Sherwin’s great state-of-the-nation trilogy builds tensely to violent rebellion, as schoolboy Mick Travis takes a stand against the brutality and repressive traditions that govern an English boarding school. Fierce in its satirising of class-bound, outdated conventions in British society, it is also deeply poetic and fantastical. It captured the late-60s zeitgeist like few others, taking the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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