Yes, forget Nicolas Philibert's ETRE ET AVOIR, made in 2002, a documentary about young eight or ten years old kids in school, and the moving relationship with their teacher. This one is not a documentary, it's a real movie but actually made more or less in a documentary style, but beware. It is painful, disturbing to watch, because about bullying, psychological and physical harassment, torture, pulled by children towards other children. It is awful, disgusting, especially because of the contrast between the tenderness of some scenes and others absolutely unbearable, such as this one, when we see some kids putting the face of one of their class mates in a toilet bidet. I saw such sequences in war films and Gestapo torture sessions. It is a film about cruelty, the most gruesome cruelty, because without any reason. It is very hard to watch for those who lived such things or for those who have kids who commited suicide, thanks to their school mates torturers, class mates hangmen, exectioners. Shame on them and thanks to this beautiful and unavoidable little film which offers the peculiarity to have no music at all.
Review of Playground
