SummaryIn a quiet Quebec town, the local high school houses hundreds of impressionable young minds, each bursting with ideas, passions, frustrations and aggression. With his third feature-length documentary, Jean-François Caissy explores this adolescent arena to craft a subtle but provocative meditation on teenage existence and the rules by which y... Read More
Directed By:Jean-François Caissy
Written By:Jean-François Caissy
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May 26, 2015
90
Communicating much with very little, Guidelines (“La Marche à Suivre”) presents a profoundly hopeful view of education as a civilizing force and a haven for transformation. There have been many more eventful high school movies, but rarely one that’s more absorbed in the forming of adults and the shaping of citizens.
May 22, 2015
80
Caissy and his editor, Mathieu Bouchard-Malo, manage to construct something that acquires a cumulative force that speaks compellingly and much more generally about the intersection of youth, education and personal morality than the specific cases of these often nameless, zit-sprinkled pieces of work.
May 22, 2015
75
It effectively implies that the subjects' troublemaking is the stuff of transience, a phase before they're ushered into the realm of adult responsibility.
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Production Company:
- National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release Date:May 26, 2015
Duration:1 h 16 m
Awards
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 3 Nominations
Camden International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
