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A character working at one of these places repeatedly looks out of the window as a pool where she dumped a corpse is drained. (10[1])In a scene (10[1])from a 1933 film set at one of these places, the soundtrack reverses and characters march in slow motion as feathers float in the air. (10[2])An audience is entranced by a Charlie Chaplin film at one of these places that is (10[1])infiltrated due to information given by the cook Joseph after his firing. (10[1])A character who runs one of these places is seemingly sedated and drowned by his wife and mistress in Diabolique. (-5[1])Jean (10[1])waves (-5[1])goodbye to his Jewish friend Julien as Julien is seized by the Gestapo in a 1987 Louis (10[1])Malle (10[1])film set at one of these (10[1])places (10[1])during the Holocaust. (10[1]-5[1])Antoine (10[1])Doinel’s misbehavior gets him (10[1])kicked (10[2])out of one of these places in Francois Truffaut’s (10[1])(“troo-FOHZ”) The 400 Blows. For 10 points, (10[1])what places (10[1])are the setting of the French films Au Revoir les Enfants (10[1])(“oh reh-VWAH lez on-FAHN”) and Zero for Conduct? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: schools [or boarding schools; accept private schools or Catholic schools or any other kind of schools; accept Carmelite convents; prompt on dormitories or bedrooms by asking “located in what larger type of facility?”]
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