Figure 1.--"La Vie Comme un Dimanche" is a French film that appears to deal with a boarding school. The boys wears blazers and short pants with white ankle socks. This suggests that these boys attended a private boarding school.
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Figure 1.--"La Vie Comme un Dimanche" is a French film that appears to deal with a boarding school. The boys wears blazers and short pants with white ankle socks. This suggests that these boys attended a private boarding school. |
HBC at this time has little information about this film, except that it was a made for television film. The title translates to something to the effect of Life As a Sunday. It was directed by Roger Guillot and released in 1997.
The main boy actors are: Christophe Carollo, Florian Hugon, Nathanael de Vries, Clément Molina, and Alan Cauchi. The adult actors are led by Ginette Garcin, Michel Bompil and Brigitte Buc.
HBC has no information on the plot.
HBC knows nothing about this film. The costuming suggests that two different schools are involved. Some boys wear wear blazers and grey short pants, rather like an English boarding school, but without caps and with white ankle socks rather than grey kneesocks. They also wear strange little ties. This uniform suggests a private boarding school. Others impages show boys wearing short pants with berets and grey smocks. This is much more likely to be the boys attending a regular state school.
HBC believes that the film is set in the 1940s or early 1950s after World War II. This is based on the costuming and a car appearing in some secenes.
Figure 2.--"La Vie Comme un Dimanche" also pictures boys wearing more traditional schoolwear, berets, and smocks. The smocks are grey, front buttoning ones. Back burroning smocks were more common at the time. Also notice the classic book sachels. |
Boys in some scenes wear tyipal French school boy clothes of berets and smocks. Other boys in some scenes wear uniforms look rather like a British prep school. School uniforms were less common in France than England. The strange little ties and the white socks, however, are clues that these boys attend a French school. Hopefully a French reader will tell us a little bit about this film.
Boys in many scenes do not wear caps. The boys wearing blazer uniforms do not wear caps. In other scenes boys wear berets, often with grey school smocks. One older boy wears a flat cap.
The boys in some scenes wear what looks like English-style school blazers, but without any badges on the pocket. Presumably these boys attend a private schools--probably a boarding school.
Boys are also pictured wearing French school smocks. They are grey front buttoning smocks. This style suggests the film was set after World War II when this style of smock became more common. Notice that some boys wear them with belts like an overcoat.
The boys wear a kind of string tie with their blazers. We have noted a few private schools and choirs wearing those ties in the 1950s and 60s.
The boys wearing blazers wear white dress shirts. The boys wearing smocks wear a wide variety of colored shirts.
Most boys wear short pants. Strangely they are almost all grey shorts--looking rather like English school shorts. The boys wearing blazers and those wearing smocks all ssem to wear the same grey shorts.
All of the boys seem to wear short socks. The boys wearing blazers wear white socks. The boys wearing smocks wear darl socks. None of the available omages show boys wearing kneesocks.
Almost all of the boys wear leather shoes. Some of the boys weraring smocks wear sandals.
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