School's Out

"The film's final design is evident: to transform anxiety into the fuzzy outlines it’s been conveying since its electroshock beginning, with a level of urgency and striking relevancy. Just like the singular way in which the director manages to dupe the audience, to make us open our eyes, to make us face the truth for once and for all, because it's about time!"

CINEUROPA

"Sébastien Marnier’s second feature borrows stylistic devices from horror to create an atmosphere of suffocating paranoia."

SCREENDAILY

"The tone of the film is unsettling, dark, and it raises important questions related to youth."

TELERAMA

"The mise-en-scene allows the viewer to dive into Pierre’s nightmares and turn this social drama into a true Kafskaesque fable."

"The inextricably hostile behavior of this group of students and the investigation their substitute teacher dives into regarding their unusual extracurricular activities turn this movie into a real ecological tale."

A VOIR A LIRE

"For his second long-feature, Sébastien Marnier deploys all his talent with a film strongly influenced by the cinema of Michael Haneke."

ANONIMA CINEFILI

"Unnerving, provocative, and fiercely contemporary, School’s Out is a political and existential thriller that’s journey is hypnotic, and that’s final destination is perfectly terrifying."

PAJIBA

"Director Sébastien Marnier has directed a genuinely frightening thriller, the scariest proposition of which is that the children who have been failed by generations past may not all go quietly into the environmental disaster we have built for them to call a future."

SCREEN MAYHEM

"If there’s one thing that School’s Out does fantastically, it’s keeping its audience intrigued at every turn. Red herrings and fever dreams abound as the film builds to its climax, seen through Romain Carcanade’s brilliant
cinematographic lens and soundtracked by Zombie Zombie’s sparse, spine-tingling synths."

THE PANOPTIC