If... (Special Edition, 2-DVD) R
Which side will you be on?
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 19, 2007
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Malcolm McDowell | |
Performer: | Christine Noonan, Richard Warwick & David Wood | |
Directed by | Lindsay Anderson |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1969 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
[The film combines] innovative technique with corrosive humor... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4.5/5 --
If . . . is so good and strong that even those things in the movie that strike me as being first-class mistakes are of more interest than entire movies made by smoothly consistent, lesser directors.
New York Times
Making his debut in the lead role, Malcolm McDowell displays the charisma he would bring to A Clockwork Orange...and the ending still packs a punch.
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The Age (Australia)
The late 60's film offers a direct and honest link into the world of conservative Britain that contemporary films can only try and simulate.
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FILMINK (Australia)
Punchy, poetic pic that delves into the epic theme of youthful revolt.
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Variety
Within a certain poetic realism, the story develops among beautiful stained glass windows, repellent bathroom sinks, dirty bedrooms, and religious chants. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Though IF....is more sombre than its successors, it shares with them a streak of surrealism and magic realism.
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Product Description:
Filmed at the time of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, Lindsay Anderson's IF. . . is one of the seminal films of the era of student revolt. The characters' direct psychological and emotional displays are an allegory for how individuals must either conform to or rebel against the autocratic authority that is imposed upon them in the face of a class-driven society. The microcosm for this allegory in IF... is College House, a typical English boarding school for boys 11-18 years of age. Malcolm McDowell makes a powerful debut in the role of Mick Travis, a student in his Junior year who becomes the leader of a student rebellion. The students are rebelling against the system which allows Senior prefects to control and discipline younger students--through physical beatings--for infractions of the schools arcane and arbitrary rules. When Mick is disciplined by the Seniors for his "bad attitude" he is punished in a harrowing scene which does not romanticize the violence he endures.
Divided into chapters with on-screen titles, Anderson methodically shows Mick's transition from adolescent rebelliousness--growing a mustache--to more serious revolt. Anderson uses surrealism, in a style similar to that of Bunuel or even Monty Python. For instance, the headmaster keeps the school chaplain in a large drawer in his office. Clearly inspired by Jean Vigo's ZERO FOR CONDUCT, IF. . . manages to give a realistic, unsentimental view of English public school life, while connecting--largely through McDowell's wonderfully sympathetic portrait of anguished youth--to the theme of personal freedom vs. social order.
Divided into chapters with on-screen titles, Anderson methodically shows Mick's transition from adolescent rebelliousness--growing a mustache--to more serious revolt. Anderson uses surrealism, in a style similar to that of Bunuel or even Monty Python. For instance, the headmaster keeps the school chaplain in a large drawer in his office. Clearly inspired by Jean Vigo's ZERO FOR CONDUCT, IF. . . manages to give a realistic, unsentimental view of English public school life, while connecting--largely through McDowell's wonderfully sympathetic portrait of anguished youth--to the theme of personal freedom vs. social order.
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