Q 01/05

Which Quentin Tarantino film got its title when a rental-store customer garbled the name Au revoir les enfants?

A) Reservoir Dogs

B) Pulp Fiction

C) Jackie Brown

D) Inglourious Basterds

Answer · why

A) Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs was how a customer at the store where Tarantino worked mangled Malle's French title, by Tarantino's own account. He kept the phrase for...

Q 02/05

In the closing narration of Au revoir les enfants, at which camp do Jean Bonnet and two other boys die?

A) Sobibor

B) Auschwitz

C) Treblinka

D) Buchenwald

Answer · why

B) Auschwitz

Auschwitz is where the three hidden boys died, the adult Julien says in voice-over, adding that he will remember that January morning for the rest of ...

Q 03/05

At which European film festival did Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants win the top prize in 1987?

A) Cannes

B) Berlin

C) Venice

D) Locarno

Answer · why

C) Venice

Venice gave the film its Golden Lion in 1987, and the two schoolboy leads went up on stage to collect it. It was Malle's second win of the prize.

Q 04/05

Louis Malle first called Au revoir les enfants My Little Madeleine, a nod to which French novelist's famous cake?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Émile Zola

C) Gustave Flaubert

D) Marcel Proust

Answer · why

D) Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust's madeleine is literature's best-known trigger of memory, fitting for a script drawn from Malle's own schooldays. The project was then r...

Q 05/05

Francine Racette, who plays Julien's mother in Au revoir les enfants, was married to which Canadian screen star?

A) Donald Sutherland

B) Christopher Plummer

C) Leslie Nielsen

D) William Shatner

Answer · why

A) Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was Racette's husband until his death in 2024, and Madame Quentin was her last screen role. The Quebec-born actress then retired fro...