Skirt Day

Skirt Day

2008 · 88 min · FR · 7.1 (171 votes)
Dir. Jean-Paul Lilienfeld · Starring Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Jackie Berroyer, Yann Collette, Nathalie Besançon, Marc Citti
Drama

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

VIBE

This film feels like a pressure cooker. It's an uncomfortably intimate, raw look at adolescent rebellion boiling over into a tense, claustrophobic standoff. The gritty realism makes every moment feel uncomfortably real.

tenseuncomfortableclaustrophobicrawsteadygritty realismcharacter-driven dramalow-fiadolescenceauthoritydesperationsocial breakdown
adolescencehostageghettoteachers and students
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