A Paris Education

I was close to giving this a 7 and in truth it's about a 6.4 as the current aggregate score suggests rather than a straight 6. From the outset the skill of the filmmakers is evident. It looks gorgeous in monochrome and I was anticipating something special. Within twenty minutes, though, I was wondering if the whole thing was a very clever joke, as the central character, an expressionless plank of wood straight from a Robert Bresson film (he is name checked), drifts around aimlessly, talking about what film means with various free-thinking characters, and trailing after an even bigger snob than himself. It's how one imagines French film if pulling only on stereotype. A parody. To be fair, if the main character wasn't such a boring dud I think I would have loved it, but he is, so I didn't. Not awful, though. Glad I saw it.