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English Education
Éducation anglaise
1983 88 min France 18+
★6.5
Comedy, Drama
Director: Jean-Claude Roy
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Description
After losing both her parents, young Sylvie is enrolled in a strict boarding school of Victorian English education. The school readily and willingly resorts to a very strict regime of correction and corporal punishment to discipline its female pupils and the young girls compensate for the rigors of their education by devoting themselves to all kinds of kinky schoolgirl sexual encounters.
Starring
Jean Antolinos
Actor
André Dupon
Actor
Brigitte Lahaie
Actor
Key opinion
Éducation anglaise is viewed as a standard, formulaic entry in the 1970s and 80s European exploitation genre. Critics find the film relies heavily on established tropes and banal scenarios, offering little originality to audiences beyond those specifically seeking out softcore boarding school dramas.
| Originality | The narrative structure and thematic tropes feel derivative and exhausted, offering no new revelations to the genre. | |
| Production | The film utilizes the atmospheric boarding school setting to compensate for weak and uninspired transgressions. | |
| Direction | Opinions on the film's value are divided: genre enthusiasts may appreciate it as a worthy entry, while others dismiss the repetitive plot and uncreative punishments as a failure of direction. |