Those faces of children in Zero for Conduct! In no other film have I seen faces like these. Those eyes, those motions, those smiles, those countenances, always ready for mischief.

Vigo's anarchic, disorienting vision of life in a French boarding school.

These amorphous scenes, strung together by a vague continuity may be art but they are also pretty chaotic.

It is hard for me to imagine how anyone with a curious eye and intelligence can fail to be excited by it, for it is one of the most visually eloquent and adventurous movies I have seen.