Like an Annie Leibovitz class photograph of a prep school where you don't know anyone, Les Amandiers is a well-shot picture of you being excluded. This film about the life of students in a prestigious acting school is directed to perfection by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and has a wonderful cast (especially the leads and Louis Garrel) but there is no door for the spectator to enter the film so we feel shut out and apathetic.