Head Against the Wall

Georges Franju’s feature-length directorial debut, La Tête Contre Les Murs, is a study in social alienation and institutional indifference that shares a resemblance with the filmmaker’s pioneering 1949 short "Blood of the Beasts."

commenting on the difficult dynamic between freedom and control within any system... it is an important missing link between the cinma du papa and the emerging nouvelle vague

The scenario is imperfect, but the director's eye is poetic and angry.

[Franju] seeks the madness behind reality because it is for him the only way to rediscover the true face of reality behind this madness.