If you loved Before the Rain, try Au Revoir les Enfants

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Before the Rain

1994 · dir. Milcho Manchevski

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Au Revoir les Enfants

1987 · dir. Louis Malle

What they share

Theysit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to Before the Rain, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Au Revoir les Enfants is

You board at a French Catholic school in 1944. Two boys swap contraband chocolates and secrets at night. Then one boy hides a forbidden guest behind the boiler room door. Louis Malle’s memory becomes your classroom in quiet terror and sudden loss.

If you loved Before the Rain, try Au Revoir les Enfants

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