"Lindsay Anderson's fantasy about rebellion in an English public school.
Clearly inspired by Vigo's great paen to schoolboy rebellion Zero de Conduite, Anderson's acerbic view of the British public school as a microcosm of a sick society was filmed two months before May '68. Malcolm McDowell plays the angry boy who ends up machine-gunning the establishment, while reality and fantasy are joyously merged around him."
With Peter Jeffrey, Arthur Lowe
UK 1968/Dir Lindsay Anderson
Monday 22 December at NFT in London.