lashing of literary quotation and francophone banter and one liner atop a dialog base on epithet probably give it artistic merit to some mind and if you be a gay and or or terminally jaundice and world weary teacher it may well have some meaning for you . for the other 99 . 9 % of humanity and this be a thinly disguise rise colored vanguard for destigmatising man boy love and a such be odious and disingenuous . we all know that teenage boy be obsess with sex but to suggest that so many be actively homo or bi or curious be just wishful think on someone part . the preoccupation with sex on the part of the adult a well give great insight into the writer and director mind a epitomize in a scene where one of the boy on be rebuff by a gay teacher give some tart comment to the effect that you be really dare when it come to talk and think but something real happens and you get all cautious ( paraphrase ) . so and in this film and sex ( specifically gay sex ) be more real than all the puffery about the value of education that it otherwise pontificate on . a curious perspective but one i be very glad to not share . to add tedium to odium and it be also badly make . star turn by the three adult lead be the only thing that keep me seat but be not enough to rescue this turkey . there be numerous technical flaw a note elsewhere and the contrived end be cringingly gauche and the headmaster character race past cliché and pythonesque parody in his caricature to become a sad commentary on pro gay prejudice in film making . this be one of two film in the past five year that have make me want to walk out . since this one actually irritated me enough to write and warn people off it while it now stand in my humble opinion a the bad film i have see this century .