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{{Infobox film<br />
|name = Graduate First<br />
|image = passe-ton-bac-d-abord.jpg<br />
|caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
|director = [[Maurice Pialat]]<br />
|producer = Maurice Pialat<br />
|writer = Maurice Pialat<br />
|starring = [[Sabine Haudepin]]<br />
|cinematography = [[Pierre-William Glenn]]<br>{{Ill|Jean-Paul Janssen|de||es||fr}}<br />
|editing = Sophie Coussein<br>{{Ill|Martine Giordano|de||fr}}<br>[[Arlette Langmann]]<br />
|music = [[Voyage (band)|Voyage]]<br />
|distributor = [[AMLF]]<br />
|released = {{Film date|1978|9|14|df=y}}<br />
|runtime = 86 minutes<br />
|country = France <br />
|language = French<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Graduate First''''' ({{langx|fr|'''Passe ton bac d'abord'''}}) is a 1978 French drama film directed by [[Maurice Pialat]] and starring [[Sabine Haudepin]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/149024/Passe-ton-bac-d-abord/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520080112/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/149024/Passe-ton-bac-d-abord/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 May 2011|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|author=Fountain, Clarke|year=2011|title=New York Times: Graduate First|accessdate=25 July 2008}}</ref> The film is set in the north of France, in [[Lens, Pas-de-Calais|Lens]], in a region profoundly affected by unemployment &ndash; the students, from modest backgrounds, try to forget their fears of what tomorrow will bring.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
The film is an "unsparing portrait of teenage life in the French suburbs [that] sees a group of schoolfriends adrift at the end of the 1970s. There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs, group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to [[Paris]] &ndash; and few prospects of passing the [[Baccalauréat]], the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world... to do what?<br />
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Marking the last work of Pialat's turbulent cycle of 1970s films, this is the sequel to the filmmaker's feature debut ''[[Naked Childhood|L'enfance nue]]'' (1969) &ndash; picked up again from a vantage point ten years on from the lives of the earlier film's protagonists."<ref>''Moviemail Monthly Film Catalogue'', September 2009.</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Sabine Haudepin]] as Élisabeth<br />
*{{Ill|Philippe Marlaud|fr}} as Philippe<br />
*[[Annick Alane]] as La mère (as Annik Alane)<br />
*[[Michel Caron (tenor)|Michel Caron]] as Le père<br />
*{{Ill|Christian Bouillette|fr}} as Le vieux dragueur<br />
*Bernard Tronczyk as Bernard<br />
*Patrick Lepcynski as Patrick<br />
*Valérie Chassigneux as Valérie<br />
*[[Jean-François Adam]] as Le professeur de philosophie<br />
*Agnès Makowiak as Agnès<br />
*Charline Pourré as Charline<br />
*Patrick Playez as Rocky, le marié<br />
*Muriel Lacroix as Muriel<br />
*Frédérique Cerbonnet as Frédérique<br />
*Fabienne Neuville as La soeur d'Élizabeth<br />
*Aline Fayard as La femme du patron<br />
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==Release==<br />
On 17 May 2016, [[Cohen Film Collection]] released ''Graduate First'' on DVD as part of their "Films of Maurice Pialat" collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/70741|title=The Films Of Maurice Pialat: Volume 1 (The Mouth Agape / Graduate First / Loulou)|last=Remer|first=Justin|website=[[DVD Talk]]|date=31 May 2016|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0079701}}<br />
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