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Young Topless is a painstakingly accurate re-creation of life in a military school of imperial Austria. Torless (Matthieu Carriere) is a sensitive boy-the despair of his father and the overweening hope of his mother-who begins his scholastic career at a noted academy. Hardly has he buttoned up his tunic when he begins to sense that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. His professors are interested in order, not in knowledge; most of his fellow students are toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class...
...suicide. "Go ahead," Pierre told her, "only wait until I've cleared out." According to Yvonne's testimony, she then picked up her gun, intending to do away with herself-but in the heat of the moment she absentmindedly pumped four shots into Pierre. Her small son Matthieu promptly burst into tears. She took him down to the concierge. Then she went upstairs, planning once again to kill herself. As she thought of Matthieu and another, elder son, her arm went limp and-bang-there went another slug into Pierre. The courtroom sighed in sympathy...