Excellent but underrated film

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Blistering performances.

Jean-Hughes Anglade might be the only French alive actor to have a place called after his name in his hometown Langeais ;unfortunately "minors 27" does not give him a single moment to shine,his part being largely underwritten.The subject of abused minor (male) children in an outdoor center could have been treated by André Cayatte or Yves Boisset;but those directors -generally unfairly dismissed by "intellectual" viewers- had an unquestionable quality:they knew how to tell a story .The audience knew what they were driving at and their know-how was effective."Mineurs 27" was given a fragmented "modern" structure ;the first quarter is almost entirely silent and the viewer does not really know who the characters are and what they are up to;a teenager spies on another one who is in love with a beautiful girl and plays the peeping tom on the beach and in the toilets ;to give a political side (shades of Boisset but also of Costa-Gavras) to a limp screenplay,we learn that the boy in question is none other than the mayor's son.All in all,"Minor 27" dealt with a very serious case and it failed totally to convince.