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Graduate First
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Wikipedia article
'Graduate First' is a 1978 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Sabine Haudepin. The film is set in the north of France, in Lens, in a region profoundly affected by unemployment – the students, from modest backgrounds, try to forget their fears of what tomorrow will bring.
Plot
The film is an "unsparing portrait of teenage life in the French suburbs [that] sees a group of schoolfriends adrift at the end of the 1970s. There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs, group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to Paris – and few prospects of passing the Baccalaurat, the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world... to do what?
Marking the last work of Pialat's turbulent cycle of 1970s films, this is the sequel to the filmmaker's feature debut 'L'enfance nue' (1969) – picked up again from a vantage point ten years on from the lives of the earlier film's protagonists."'Moviemail Monthly Film Catalogue September 2009
Cast
* Sabine Haudepin as lisabeth
* as Philippe
* Annick Alane as La mre (as Annik Alane)
* Michel Caron as Le pre
* Christian Bouillette as Le vieux dragueur
* Bernard Tronczyk as Bernard
* Patrick Lepcynski as Patrick
* Valrie Chassigneux as Valrie
* Jean-Franois Adam as Le professeur de philosophie
* Agns Makowiak as Agns
* Charline Pourr as Charline
* Patrick Playez as Rocky, le mari
* Muriel Lacroix as Muriel
* Frdrique Cerbonnet as Frdrique
* Fabienne Neuville as La soeur d'lizabeth
* Aline Fayard as La femme du patron
References
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