School's Out's reviews
Media reviews
Cinemanía
The film freely adapts Christophe Dufossé's novel 'L?heure de la sortie' and does so with undeniable cinematographic talent.
La Vanguardia
The film guides the viewer through totally unpredictable situations and an ecological background.
The Hollywood Reporter
Marnier, greatly aided by Romain Carcanade's glossy yet foreboding cinematography, and Zombie Zombie?s contemporary and discreetly menacing score, establishes a sense of unease from the get-go, with things slowly becoming creepier as time passes and no explanation seems to be forthcoming
Screen Daily
A retro-electronic score is the most obvious nod to 1980s horror movies in a film which also uses anamorphic lenses to distort and bend the interiors, and a recurring motif of beads of anxious sweat.
ABC
Sébastien Marnier's film is far from being the typical school movie. [...] The succession of disturbing images, often uncomfortable, Haneke, let a not always buried violence emerge. Little geniuses are increasingly unbearable, moving towards an outcome that seems impossible to guess.
El País
A different and radical work, which has not just rounded, but with social approaches of seductive ambiguity. [...] 'School's Out' is thus a social experience of distressing energy and freedom.
El Periódico
Mixture of institute story, ecologist fantasy and psychological thriller, plays with many clichés [...] but it has a very interesting atmosphere and ending.
Fotogramas
A good mystery, adorned with the proper setting, can sustain even the weakest of stories. [...] The rarefied atmosphere that surrounds every minute of the footage.
Cine Premiere
In a rather subtle way, the director integrates a surreal dreamlike dimension that makes us get worse. Thus, the camera gradually reveals the true theme of the film and offers us a powerful reflection on today's world.
Time Out
Marnier displays a knowledge of the genre that sometimes pays off, especially in regard to some of the scenes of confrontation between teacher and students or the obsession of the first, which often makes us think that everything may be happening in his head.