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If....
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014437215628
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogLatin (Original Language), Analog
Theatrical Release Date: September 12, 1969
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Rating:  - Great DVD
I had never heard of this movie or the director, It was a recomendation from amazon, and they nailed it. The moment I saw the recomendation, it inmedialty intrigued me and it was what I expected and the kind of movie I wanted to see at the time. The dvd box is great full of interesting stuff. the purchase, normal, nothign bad happened, happy with the product.
Rating: - Private school rebellion
Film set in 60s in the upper class boy's private school in England, shows the daily life of the adolescent boys. We see them bond, study, daydream and misbehave. They are governed by all male staff and the only two women around them are the elderly nurse and the wife of the principal. Boys feel smothered in the close quarters of the boarding school and confused about their sexual awakening. The sexual repression leads them to be mean to each other and to generally rebel against all rules of conduct ... Read More
Rating: - See "If. . ."
"If. . ." is an excellent movie--my husband and I have been watching it regularly for 40 years!
Rating: - Questioning authority.
"Violence and revolution are the only pure acts."
Before his unforgettable performance in 1971 as Alex DeLarge, the psychopathic delinquent in Stanley Kubrick's classic, A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made his first appearance in British director Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film, If. . . ., a cult film about a student rebellion at a British a boarding school. (The film was in production at the time of the student uprisings in Paris in May, 1968.) McDowell plays Mick Travis, a character Anderson ... Read More
Rating: - "Don't forget boy Look over your shoulder 'Cause there's always someone coming after you",
The first entry to the Mick Travis trilogy ("If...", 1968, O Lucky Man, 1973, and "Britannia Hospital", 1982), "If.." is a surreal black comedy about an English private boys' school and a student rebellion. In his three films, Anderson had covered all aspects, politics, and institutions of British Society from 1968 to 1982 with its complex system of class differences and privileges. "If..." which was released in 1968 at the peak of youthful rebellion in Europe and USA, received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations ... Read More
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