La Classe de neige (1998) Directed by Claude Miller

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Clément van den Bergh (Nicolas) Emmanuelle Bercot (Miss Grimm) Yves Verhoeven (Patrick) Lokman Nalcakan (Hodkann) François Roy (The Father) Tina Sportolaro (The Mother) Yves Jacques (The Visitor) Chantal Banlier (Marie Ange) Benoît Herlin (Ribotton) Julien Le Mouel (Lucas) Tom Jacon (Nicolas' little brother) Loïc Pichon (Policeman #1) Thierry Redler (Policeman #2) Jean-Claude Frissung (Doctor) Alain Payen (Policeman at accident) Guy Jacques (Man in blue jeans) Valérie Bettencourt (Gas station attendant) Anthéa Sogno (Clothes shop attendant)

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A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

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Class Trip (La Classe de Neige)

Details: 1998, France, Cert 15, 96 mins

Direction: Claude Miller

Genre: Drama

Summary: Psychological drama offering a powerful, though sensitively handled, depiction of childhood sexual abuse.

With: Clement Van Den Bergh ,  Emmanuelle Bercot and Lokman Nalcakan

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Despite a strong beginning and some powerful moments, the intense, narrowly focused "Class Trip" is only intermittently involving, emotionally or intellectually. Several of Claude Miller's movies have traveled festival and arthouse roads in North America, but Warners should expect a modest response to a film that may be embraced by Miller fans but is likely to divide more discerning critics and viewers, as it depicts (rather than illuminates) the traumatic experience of one boy's winter vacation.

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Despite a strong beginning and some powerful moments, the intense, narrowly focused “Class Trip” is only intermittently involving, emotionally or intellectually. Several of Claude Miller’s movies have traveled festival and arthouse roads in North America, but Warners should expect a modest response to a film that may be embraced by Miller fans but is likely to divide more discerning critics and viewers, as it depicts (rather than illuminates) the traumatic experience of one boy’s winter vacation.

In this visually compelling evocation of a troubled childhood, Miller revisits the turf of some of his earlier pictures — specifically “The Best Way to Walk,” which was also set in a holiday camp, and his adolescence dramas “An Impudent Girl” and “The Little Thief.”

Unlike Neil Jordan’s “The Butcher Boy,” which offered a brilliant, darkly humorous look at the inner workings of a tormented and violent childhood, “Class Trip” addresses its subject as a serious psychological drama, failing to provide an absorbing p.o.v. and ultimately giving the impression that an adult perspective has been imposed on the unique universe of children.

When the tale begins, the frail and melancholy Nicolas (Clement Van Den Bergh) is about to embark on a school skiing trip. A professional worrier, his insecure father (Francois Roy) raises numerous questions about the safety of the trip, spurred by a recent bus accident in which 15 children were killed. Refusing to let Nicolas take the bus like all the other kids, he opts to drive him to the camp, a journey that increases the boy’s anxieties on every level.

Upon arrival at the camp — a remote, beautiful spot in snow-covered woods — Nicolas forgets to take his bag from the car, thus beginning an endless ordeal that materializes most of his phobias. Hodkann (Lokman Nalcakan), a wild, undisciplined kid, lends him pajamas and a tentative friendship begins.

Blessed with a fertile imagination and a set of real problems to match, Nicolas engages in daydreams and nightmares to the point where, as he says, “I would rather make myself stop sleeping than have my fantasies.”

Film’s major chapters visualize Nicolas’ horrific stories as he experiences them and as he shares them with Hodkann. His fantasies are dominated by torture and violence, with visions of his father’s death in a bloody car accident.

Early on, Nicolas asks, “Is it true that when you think very hard about something it really happens?” — a question that becomes the film’s central theme. As it turns out, Nicolas’ reality at the camp proves to be much more frightening and traumatic than his cruelest fantasy. Unfortunately, midsection contains so many illustrations of Nicolas’ tormented mind that they progressively yield diminishing returns.

Based on a 1995 novel by Emmanuel Carrere, which was inspired by a news item, “Class Trip” seems satisfied with simply portraying Nicolas’ mental anguish, without framing it in any discernible dramatic perspective. Result is a film that suffers from repetition of imagery and ideas and one that is more perplexing than truly disturbing or provocative.

Well cast, Van Den Bergh has a sad, expressive face, but most of the time he’s by himself, with only limited interaction with the instructors and other kids. The close-ups Miller lavishes on him don’t help make his character more sympathetic or engaging. In general, pic is cold and distanced, lacking the subtlety and emotional nuance that characterize Miller’s better efforts.

That said, well-mounted production is polished in every respect, and exciting visuals by lenser Guillaume Schiffman provide considerable rewards for the eyes while the mind eagerly awaits psychological insights that never arrive.

(PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA -- FRENCH)

  • Production: A Les Films de la Boissiere presentation, in co-production with Warner Bros., PECF-FR3 Cinema, Rhone Alpes Cinema and the participation of Canal Plus. Executive producer, Annie Miller. Directed by Claude Miller. Screenplay, Emmanuel Carrere, based on her novel.
  • Crew: Camera (Technicolor, widescreen), Guillaume Schiffman; editor, Anne Lafarge; music, Henri Texier; production designer, Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko; costume designers, Jacqueline Bouchard, Catherine Bouchard; makeup, Lucia Bretones-Mendez; associate producer, Francis Boespflug; assistant director, Christophe Marillier; casting, Marie-Christine Lafosse, Arnaud Esterez. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (competing), May 16, 1998. Running time: 96 MIN.
  • With: Nicolas ..... Clement Van Den Bergh Hodkann ..... Lokman Nalcakan The Father ..... Francois Roy The Mother ..... Tina Sportolard Patrick ..... Yves Verhoeven Miss Grimm ..... Emmanuelle Bercot

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Nicolas is a socially clumsy boy, intelligent yet naive, and prone to vivid dreams. On a school trip he forgets his suitcase and is compelled to sleep without pajamas. He becomes terrified of wetting the bed, fearful that his body will betray him as less mature than the other boys. But there are more sinister forces around him, and dangers greater than that of social embarassment.

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At 12, Nicolas is small for his age: timid and anxious, he does his utmost to avoid getting noticed... In both his sleeping and waking hours, Nicolas dreams, telling himself terrifying tales. One day, the children in the ski school learn that a child has vanished from a nearby village. Dipping into his stock of nightmares, Nicolas leads his roommate, Hodkann, off on a suspense-filled adventure. Until their childhood terrors give way to devastating reality. A reality that hits Nicolas hard, in the very depths of his being, and that he has to face alone.

Director (1)

Claude miller.

Claude Miller - © Visual

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Clément van den bergh.

Clément Van Den Bergh

Lokman Nalcakan

Lokman Nalcakan

Emmanuelle Bercot

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Yves Verhoeven

Yves Verhoeven

François Roy

François Roy

Chantal Banlier

Chantal Banlier

Tina Sportolaro

Tina Sportolaro

Yves Jacques

Yves Jacques

Benoît Herlin

Benoît Herlin

Julien Le Mouël

Julien Le Mouël

Loïc Pichon

Loïc Pichon

Thierry Redler

Thierry Redler

Jean-Claude Frissung

Jean-Claude Frissung

Alain Payen

Alain Payen

Valérie Bettencourt

Valérie Bettencourt

Anthéa Sogno

Anthéa Sogno

Cécile Simeone

Cécile Simeone

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  • Executive Producer : Les Films de la Boissière
  • Co-productions : Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises (PECF) , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma , France 3 Cinéma
  • Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films de la Boissière
  • French distribution : Warner Bros. (France)

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  • Executive Producer : Annie Miller
  • Adaptation : Emmanuel Carrère , Claude Miller
  • Screenwriters : Claude Miller , Emmanuel Carrère
  • Director of Photography : Guillaume Schiffman
  • Music Composer : Henri Texier
  • Assistant directors : Norbert Dammann , Christophe Marillier
  • Editor : Anne Lafarge
  • Sound Recordist : Paul Lainé
  • Costume designers : Jacqueline Bouchard , Catherine Bouchard
  • Associate Producer : Francis Boespflug
  • Assistant Operators : Guillaume Génini , Franck Séchan , Jean-Pierre Méchin
  • Production Manager : Sylvestre Guarino
  • Press Attachés (film) : Marquita Doassans , Isabelle Sauvanon
  • Continuity supervisor : Sylvie Koechlin
  • Production Designers : Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko , François Decaux
  • Foley artist : Jean-Pierre Lelong
  • Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
  • Still Photographer : Moune Jamet
  • Location Manager : Samuel Amar

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  • Type : Feature film
  • Genres : Fiction
  • Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama
  • Themes : Childhood, Mountains
  • Production language : French
  • Production country : France (100.0%)
  • Original French-language productions : Unspecified
  • Nationality : 100% French (France)
  • Production year : 1998
  • French release : 23/09/1998
  • Runtime : 1 h 35 min
  • Current status : Released
  • Visa number : 92.453
  • Visa issue date : 10/08/1998
  • Approval : Yes
  • Production formats : 35mm
  • Color type : Color
  • Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
  • Audio format : Dolby Digital

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I am one of those people who believe that everything that happens to us in childhood, the fun and games but also the fears and phobias and anxieties, molds the adults we grow into. I didn’t invent the idea — there are libraries full of books about it — but I feel it so strongly that the kind of stories that move me, about which I want to make films, are usually connected to that area. I normally feel much less comfortable dealing with adults’ feelings and emotions. I’ve told stories about adults before and certainly will again, but I am much more deeply moved — for reasons of my own personality — by stories that involve children. (Claude Miller, in “La Libre Cinéma”, September 30th 1998)

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1998 ‘La Classe de neige’ Directed by Claude Miller

A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

Clément Van Den Bergh Lokman Nalcakan François Roy Yves Verhoeven Emmanuelle Bercot Tina Sportolaro Yves Jacques Chantal Banlier Benoît Herlin Julien Le Mouel

Director Director

Claude Miller

Writers Writers

Claude Miller Emmanuel Carrère

Original Writer Original Writer

Emmanuel Carrère

Casting Casting

Marie-Christine Lafosse Arnaud Esterez

Editor Editor

Anne Lafarge

Cinematography Cinematography

Guillaume Schiffman

Production Design Production Design

Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

Composer Composer

Henri Texier

Costume Design Costume Design

Jacqueline Bouchard Catherine Bouchard

Les Films de la Boissière Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises France 3 Cinéma CNC Canal+ Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma

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MJsays

Review by MJsays ★★½

Interesting concept, flimsy execution. It was probably edgy for its time, but if something like this can win the Jury Prize at Cannes, so could an episode of Sesame Street, all you’d need to do is make it French and add guns.

Chip

Review by Chip ★★★★½

A nice little dark movie about how it sucks to be a kid and also family sucks. The only thing that doesn't suck is your best friend, but you'll never get to hang out with him again. Also, nightmares. Sleeping sucks. So it sucks when you're awake and when you're not. You'll probably die alone.

LeoGreenfield

Review by LeoGreenfield ★½

Legitimately a painful movie to watch. Lines are stilted and the performances are pathetic.

The fact that this has a 3.4 average is proof that people will in fact give anything a positive rating if it's in French. If this were in English it would rightfully be derided as a ham-fisted, clumsy mess.

Oli

Review by Oli ★★★★

Darkly imaginative mystery thriller about a sensitive boy with an active imagination: Nicolas, his over protective father and a school skiing trip.

Director Claude Miller keeps the atmosphere tense throughout and plays up the mystery angle alongside the daydream sequences; making the viewer question, if not the reality of then the meaning behind, what they're seeing, leaving questions lingering that are better left unanswered. A great cast is lead by impeccable performances from Clément Van Den Bergh as Nicolas and Lokman Nalcakan as rough and tumble Hodkaan turned best friend.

An intriguing, blackly comic drama about childhood's end.

Olivier Lemay

Review by Olivier Lemay ★★★★

Daydreams coloured into nightmares by baby blue crayons. 

I was floored by the way Class Trip  captures childhood trauma with imagination. Visuals are striking from the many intense fantasy sequences to the wolf in sheep’s clothing that reality can be.

Appreciated not getting every question answered, I’m sure that I’ll be asking them to myself a lot in the following days. 

Surprised by how underseen this film is, definitely a hidden gem fronm France

Craig J. Clark

Review by Craig J. Clark ★★★½

"It's very easy, you know, to disappear."

A socially awkward schoolboy with a vivid imagination and a reputation as a bed-wetter goes on a ski trip with his class and imagines all kinds of horrid things happening -- up to and including his own funeral after he gets locked out of the chateau where they're staying and freezes to death. Of course, it's hard to blame him for being so morbid what with his overprotective father filling his head with stories about organ traffickers abducting children in broad daylight and stealing their kidneys. The most disturbing sequence, though, is the one where ten men in white hoods and long leather coats surround the chateau and mow down his classmates with…

Emalie

Review by Emalie ★★★ 1

The DVD box of this at work straight up made it look like a creepy ghost movie, which this is most definitely not (with taglines like "a CREEPY film by Claude Miller," and "Tales from the orphanage...you think YOU had it rough?!" in spooky font). A quietly upsetting illustration of childhood trauma though, for sure.

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Review by Optical Noise

This film is quite effective in representing the fear, confusion, and lonlines of childhood in too many cases. This boy is told everything is dangerous from a destructive, jerk of a father. Yet in other times, teachers refuse to talk openly about troublesome ongoing situations. The dreams in the film blur the boundaries of all understanding and emotionally clarity, matched to his fragility and uncertainty. These scenes are a large fraction of the middle of the film, and I was quite engrossed by them. There's a trance-like quality and some jarring shocks. And if you're trivia, I learned after watching that this one won a 1998 Cannes jury prize. Usually can't go wrong with strong Cannes selections.

ArizonaJim

Review by ArizonaJim ★★★½

I’ve seen a couple of Claude Miller’s films. Thrillers made in an emotionally cool style, exploring characters rather than providing narrative thrills, they have been interesting, but never as interesting as they continually promise: finally not that memorable. Perhaps Miller is a stronger writer than director. La classe de neige isn’t really a thriller, but there is a thriller, the story of a missing boy, just behind the story of the film. The film is more of a character study: Nicolas, an introverted child, is on a school trip to the Alps. There are a series of interesting threads to the film: Nicolas has an over-protective father who insists on driving Nicolas to the centre because there has recently been…

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This poor kid needs his life hard reset or something, man.

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Review by Camden ★★★

This one is really original and that single reason makes it a must-watch. Some effects are bit outdated but the mood is overall terrific.

Jeremy Heilman

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An unsettled, constantly slipping work about the dissolution of parental authority, it offers fantasy as a route to identity formation in the face of masculinity’s collapse. Very unnerving, until it begins to feel uniquely empowered…

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An undisciplined lad (Lokman Nalcakan) at a skiing camp befriends an anxious boy (Clement Van Den Bergh) tormented by violent fantasies.

Genre: Drama

Original Language: French (Canada)

Director: Claude Miller

Producer: Annie Miller

Writer: Emmanuel Carrère , Claude Miller

Release Date (Theaters): May 16, 1998  original

Runtime: 1h 36m

Production Co: Warner Brothers

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Cast & Crew

Clement Van Den Bergh

Lokman Nalcakan

Francois Roy

Tina Sportolaro

Yves Verhoeven

Emmanuelle Bercot

Chantal Banlier

Julien Le Mouel

Claude Miller

Emmanuel Carrère

Francis Boespflug

Associate Producer

Annie Miller

Executive Producer

Henri Texier

Original Music

Guillaume Schiffman

Cinematographer

Anne Lafarge

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A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

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Like Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy, albeit without the lashings of black humour, Claude Miller's Class Trip burrows into the depths of a seriously disturbed young mind.

Nicholas (Van Den Bergh) is a frail-looking, withdrawn boy who's driven to the Alps for a school skiing trip by his over-protective father (Roy). Isolated from most of his peers, Nicholas falls prey to a series of terrifying nightmares and violent fantasies in which he envisages his father's gruesome death, his own funeral and the abduction of his brother by black-market organ-traffickers. His ineffectual teachers attempt to cheer him up, but through the TV news, they learn the shocking truth about his father...

This sombre adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère's novel flies thick with the fairytale allusions while avoiding facile explanations for its protagonist's mental state, leaving the possibility of sexual abuse to lie in the viewer's imagination. Yet while the initial scenes convey a sense of foreboding, the material becomes increasingly repetitive and offers few dramatic surprises. Nevertheless, it's acted and photo-graphed with aplomb, and Miller convincingly conveys the inability of adults to communicate with psychologically distressed children.

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  • Variety Emanuel Levy Despite a strong beginning, the film is too narrowly focused, giving the impression that an adult POV has been imposed on the story of a traumatic childhood.

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A class trip to a hotel provides a great opportunity for some "on location" footage. It sounds like a great plan until Paula is asked to chaperone the trip with Mr. Lynch. Coach McGuirk has to get a second job to pay for damages resulting from a fight with the office coffeemaker.

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Ep 10 history.

Mr. Lynch is tutoring Brendon, who is failing History. His lack of historical perspective is evident through his movies, which star the evil George Washington, the evil Picasso and the evil Annie Oakley.

EP 11 Writer's Block

The school writing fair is one week away and Brendon is suffering a bad case of writer's block! Melissa and Jason put pressure on him to no avail, but they end up being a hit anyway. Paula is inspired by the pep talk she gives Brendon and gets back to her writing roots.

EP 12 Pizza Club

Paula tries to get a role in one of Brendon's films about a little girl named Little Malooloo who has two fathers. McGuirk feels left out by the regular pizza club meetings that Brendon has with his dad.

EP 13 The Wedding

The big day is here: Brendon's dad is marrying his girlfriend. A rash is slowly covering Brendon's body, but otherwise he's doing okay. Paula's friend Stephanie is in town for the wedding and takes a liking to Coach McGuirk.

EP 1 Shore Leave

Erik is worried that Melissa doesn't have enough friends who are girls so he enrolls her in The Fairy Princesses. Meanwhile, Brendon gets invited to spend the weekend with Fenton, whom he didn't even know he was friends with. Both Brendon and Melissa have what they consider to be the worst weekends of their lives.

EP 2 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

A kitchen fire at the Smalls is nothing compared to the flaring tempers triggered when both of Paula's newly separated parents move in. To make matters worse, Coach McGuirk volunteers to "renovate" the kitchen. Meanwhile, Brendon, Jason and Melissa make a crime drama called "Mulligan and Winooski" about two cops.

EP 3 Bad Influences

The camera does add 10 pounds, but so does binging on junk food. Brendon and Jason are gaining weight at an alarming rate, so in order break the "fat-enabling" cycle, they decide never to see each other again.

EP 4 Improving Your Life Through Improv

Brendon gets caught making fun of another kid at school and as a result, Mr. Lynch sends everyone to sensitivity training on a Saturday. There they learn the value of really bad improv games and experience the song "No Skin Off My Ass." Also: Paula secretly enters one of Brendon's movies in a contest.

EP 7 Four's Company

Melissa gets a new French-accented boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason get jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule--and the casting of their Susan B. Anthony biopic. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk transforms into to a social planner.

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  1. Class Trip

    Class Trip is a 1998 French drama film by Claude Miller, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère.Its original French title is La Classe de neige, which is the name given to class trips in the snow.It tells the story of a young boy on a school skiing trip who suffers anxiety attacks that bring on disturbing nightmares.

  2. Class Trip (1998)

    Class Trip: Directed by Claude Miller. With Clément van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, François Roy, Yves Verhoeven. A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

  3. ‎Class Trip (1998) directed by Claude Miller • Reviews, film + cast

    Surprised by how underseen this film is, definitely a hidden gem fronm France. Review by Craig J. Clark ★★★½ "It's very easy, you know, to disappear." A socially awkward schoolboy with a vivid imagination and a reputation as a bed-wetter goes on a ski trip with his class and imagines all kinds of horrid things happening -- up to and ...

  4. Class Trip (1998)

    A grey Renault is being driven along a highway leading into the mountains. Nicolas (Clement van den Bergh), a boy of about twelve, is sitting in the back seat, napping. On the dashboard are photos of Nicolas, his little brother Tom, and his mother. His father (François Roy) is driving. A teacher, Miss Grimm (Emmanuelle Bercot), is orienting ...

  5. La Classe de neige (1998) [Class Trip]

    Film Synopsis N icolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself. When he joins his class, Nicholas feels out of place and alienated. He starts to have disturbing nightmares.

  6. Class Trip (1998)

    Synopsis. Claude Miller directed this French psychological drama adapted from Emmanuel Carrere's 1995 novel (based on a factual news item). Detailing a troubled boy's traumas at a holiday camp, the film recalls Miller's other adolescent dramas -- The Little Thief, The Best Way to Walk (also at a holiday camp), and An Impudent Girl.

  7. Class Trip (1998)

    When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. The A.V. Club; Deadspin; ... Film Movie Reviews Class Trip — 1998. Class Trip. 1998. 1h 36m. Drama/Mystery.

  8. Class Trip (1998)

    Class Trip is a film directed by Claude Miller with Clément van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, François Roy, Yves Verhoeven .... Year: 1998. Original title: La classe de neige. Synopsis: A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.You can watch Class Trip through on the platforms:

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    Class Trip (La Classe de Neige) Details: 1998, France, Cert 15, 96 mins. Direction: Claude Miller. ... Film search. Latest reviews. Noah review â 'a preposterous but endearingly unhinged epic'

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    Nicolas is a socially clumsy boy, intelligent yet naive, and prone to vivid dreams. On a school trip he forgets his suitcase and is compelled to sleep without pajamas. He becomes terrified of wetting the bed, fearful that his body will betray him as less mature than the other boys. But there are...

  12. Class Trip- A Film by Claude Miller- Grand Jury Prize Cannes Trailer HD

    This is a rather obscure film but a very good one from late 90's France. If you can find a copy, I highly recommend it. Clement Ven Den Berg is a brilliant y...

  13. Class Trip de Claude Miller (1998)

    In both his sleeping and waking hours, Nicolas dreams, telling himself terrifying tales. One day, the children in the ski school learn that a child has vanished from a nearby village. Dipping into his stock of nightmares, Nicolas leads his roommate, Hodkann, off on a suspense-filled adventure. Until their childhood terrors give way to ...

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    Sensitively and elegantly made - albeit in a determinedly old-fashioned way - Claude Miller's film is based on a novel by Emmanuel Carrère about the experiences. Go to the content Go to the footer.

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    In CLASS TRIP (LA CLASSE DE NEIGE), Nicolas is an insecure child plagued by visions of disasters and horrible accidents. In his dreams and daydreams he sees ...

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    When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. ‎Class Trip (1998) directed by Claude Miller • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Letterboxd — Your life in film

  17. Class Trip (1998)

    5/10. Well-directed but pretty ho-hum French thriller. gridoon 22 May 2004. Using dreams as a means of expressing a character's hidden fears and desires is an old trick, and Claude Miller overdoes it; there are probably more dream sequences than actual events in this movie.

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    Class Trip (1998) Class Trip (1998) Class Trip (1998) Class Trip (1998) See all photos. Movie Info. An undisciplined lad (Lokman Nalcakan) at a skiing camp befriends an anxious boy (Clement Van ...

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    CLASS TRIP La classe de neige. Directed by. Claude Miller. France, 1998. Drama, Mystery. 96. Synopsis. A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. ... When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. ...

  20. Class Trip review

    Like Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy, albeit without the lashings of black humour, Claude Miller's Class Trip burrows into the depths of a seriously disturbed young mind.Nicholas (Van Den Bergh) is a fr

  21. Class Trip

    In Class Trip (La Classe De Neige), Nicolas is an insecure child plagued by visions of disaster. His peers tease him, or ignore him, while his teachers are frustrated by his lack of social skills. Nicolas leads a lonely life until a class trip to the ski country, where Hadkann, the class bully, befriends him and becomes intrigued by his dreams. ...

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    Class Trip (1998) starring Clément Van Den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, François Roy and directed by Claude Miller.

  23. Class Trip

    A class trip to a hotel provides a great opportunity for some "on location" footage. It sounds like a great plan until Paula is asked to chaperone the trip with Mr. Lynch. Coach McGuirk has to get a second job to pay for damages resulting from a fight with the office coffeemaker.