Country:France

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

This precise little masterpiece is challenging in its utter simplicity. The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there are things he doesn't know. The text is by Marguerite Duras which she later used as the basis for her own final film as a director. This is an ideal introduction to the rigours and disarming directness of the Straub/Huillet approach.