Guidelines (2015)

Original title

La marche à suivre

Directed by

Jean-Francois Caissy

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

PG

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is a documentary about teenagers in a rural Canadian high school. It shows their daily lives including conflicts with authority and their freedom outside school. The camera simply observes without commentary.

observationalneutralunobtrusivereflectivegroundedunadorneddocumentary-style

What happens

Guidelines (French: La marche à suivre) is a 2014 Canadian feature-length documentary by Jean-François Caissy about adolescent students at the École Antoine Bernard high school in the rural community of Carleton-sur-Mer, in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region. The film uses a fly on the wall style of documentary storytelling as it chronicles such issues as drug use, bullying and disruptive behaviour, while contrasting school life with the freedom of the outdoors. In conversations between teachers or social workers and students, Caissy often makes use of a fixed camera, so that voices of adult authority are off-screen and unseen. Caissy has stated that Guidelines is part of a series of films he plans to make on five stages of human life: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age as well as old age, which was the subject of his 2010 feature documentary La belle visite. Caissy grew up in the Gaspésie region, and was drawn to the Antoine Bernard school because it reminded him of his own experiences as a youth. The film is produced by the National Film Board of Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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