Fabien M. shared with us the first international trailer (without English subtitles) for French director Sebastien Marnier’s high-school-set thriller School’s Out, which is set to premiere at this month’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
Elle co-star Laurent Lafitte plays Pierre Hoffman, a substitute form tutor, brought in after his predecessor commits suicide by throwing himself out of the classroom window in front of his teenage students. Actress and film-maker Emmanuelle Bercot will play another teacher in the school. French rapper Gringe also stars with Pascal Greggory, Greg Montel, Thomas Scimeca and Véronique Ruggia.
“Lafitte’s character Hoffman finds that six of his new students seem strangely indifferent to what they witnessed and as time goes on he observes that this small, tight-knit group exerts a strange sinister influence over the rest of the school.
“He becomes obsessed with the group, who are unusually smart and precocious, discovering it is united by a dark vision of a doomed future and contempt for adults. This obsession turns into terror when he discovers their ultimate, extreme and dangerous goal.“