A January morning

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2007)

Opens at a school in German occupied France in 1944 where in a boarding school a little grown up children are shown taking classes, making confessions, reading sex magazines and sneaking into each other's private lives as Europe delves into the 5th year of second world war. The narration goes more political and humane as children try to comprehend the worst of the world around them. Last 20 minutes are very moving.
Narration is very slow and lots of characters are just too elementary or too obvious. Still film works in the last 20 minutes. It's based on a true story. Nothing great except for a few scenes like class in the basement and fight between Julien and Bonnet. Still not worth 1 hour 44 minutes. 7/10.