La Classe de neige (1998) *

Directed by Claude Miller. With Clement van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan and Francois Roy. What makes Miller tick? The genius behind L'Effronte (1985), also responsible for such wretched turkeys as Le Sourire (1996), now comes up with a bizarre little drama about a young boy with a very fertile imagination. The film belongs to the venerable French tradition of Grand Guignol, with bloody limbs scathered around and organs being harvested from living people. It got some minor award at Cannes, but all it deserves is a mop and a bucket of water.