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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), one of the best-reviewed French films of the 1980s. It is a coming-of-age school drama set during the WW2 Nazi occupation of France. A boy forges a friendship with a new student at school, but things get dicey when said student turns out to be secretly Jewish. Drama ensues. It is an autobiographical story based on the experience of director Louis Malle during the occupation; we have already watched his feature-length dinner conversation My Dinner with Andre (1981), which was solid (his other well-known films include The Fire Within [1963] and Elevator to the Gallows [1958]), so let’s check out another one of his most well-regarded works.

After that is Challengers (2024), the latest from Call Me By Your Name (2017) and Suspiria (2018) director Luca Guadanigno. A young tennis coach (played by Zendaya) seeks to get her tennis-player husband out of his losing rut by enrolling him in a low-level tournament, where he just so happens to be matched against her ex-boyfriend. What’s more, they start woogin’ for each other, and they form a throuple, and the competition heats up in tandem with the romance. Critics are raving about this one; it is one of the top-rated films of the year so far. So, we’ll give it a whirl. We were going to watch this on Friday, but Hextube crapped out, so we’re doing it for real tonight.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://letterboxd.com/film/au-revoir-les-enfants/
• Challengers: https://letterboxd.com/film/challengers/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Challengers: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1071641

CWs for Au Revoir Les Enfants:

• Nazis.
• Partially-nude teenagers.
• Bath scene.
• Reference to masturbation.
• Cheating.
• A Nazi soldier orders a boy to pull his pants down. The act is not depicted, however.
• Schoolyard violence.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Drunkenness.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Challengers:

• Alcohol.
• Broken bones.
• Cheating.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Shower scene.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Hospital scene.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Homelessness.

Links to movies:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://tankie.tube/w/e6LWtoBu8KJk8UeTx7xRtp
• Challengers: https://tankie.tube/w/u38qrShAhhAjyRgP9TSEhd