There is a saying that if you are not a communist at 20 you have no heart, and if you are still one at 30 you have no head. However, the average 20-year-old is quite capable of understanding totalitarianism, torture and mass murder. Perhaps 20-year-old communists could be described as simultaneously heartless and headless — evil and wilfully stupid. The characters in the film, After May (rated M), are not quite 20: they are late-adolescent French school pupils, living just a few years af…
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