Summary
A flapper-era fever dream stitched from scandalous lace and cigarette smoke, School for Skirts detonates the finishing-school mythos: rebellious heiress Clary Belmont smuggles bootleg gin into a crumbling French convent-cum-academy, trading waltz lessons for Charleston orgies while a clandestine syndicate of debutantes blackmails senators with cyanide-laced love letters. Billy Ruge’s gender-bending dance master, part Nijinsky foxtrot, part drag-king rake, pirouettes between bedsheets and barricades, orchestrating a midnight jailbreak that turns chiffon uniforms into revolutionary banners; the film ends on a freeze-frame of a cigarette ember hovering above the Seine—freedom or damnation left suspended like a question mark made of smoke.
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