Description:

"Goodbye, Children" is inspired by the most dramatic memory of my childhood. In 1944, I was eleven years old and a boarder at a Catholic school near Fontainebleau. One of my classmates, who had arrived at the beginning of the year, intrigued me greatly. He was different, secretive. I began to know him, to love him, when, one morning, our little world collapsed. That morning in 1944 perhaps decided my vocation as a filmmaker. I should have made it the subject of my first film, but I waited. Time passed, the memory became more acute, more present. After ten years in the United States, I felt that the time had come and I wrote the screenplay for Goodbye, Children. Imagination used memory as a springboard, I reinvented the past, beyond historical reconstruction, in pursuit of one truth at a time. haunting and timeless.