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The film brought tears to my eyes.

I watched the restored version of the film provided by studio canal. I didn't know about it, but also I am aware of this genre which in a way defines European movies at a certain point in history. Coming of age always attracts me. Some years back, I watched the Polish film "Shivers", from the same year this film was released. And the treatment was kinda same, and great. We really need such movies in India, a country worst affected by blind nationalism. Thank you France!

If you loved R. A. S, from the same director Yves Boisset, you'll also love this one, made eight years later, and proposing the same kind of "talk" against Army, the same DNA as in R. A. S. Yves Boisset's trademark, concerning pacifism, where Lucas Belvaux replaces here Jacques Weber - R. A. S - love it or skip it. I definitely love it. Lucas Belvaux is extraordinary, though I have never liked his way of speaking, even later in his filmography, he talks as if he reads a poem. Cast over the top, very well chosen by Boisset, for whom this film is his all time favorite. Unfairly underrated, this is a tremendous French film, which only Yves Boisset could direct in those early eighties days. Even now, it would be very daring.