2020 · documentary · coming-of-age
Adolescents
Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz2h 15m2020
Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From the age of thirteen to eighteen, Adolescentes follows the two teenagers during these years where radical transformations and first times punctuate daily life. Through their personal stories, the film offers a rare portrait of France and its recent history.
Our read: Adolescents (2020) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded documentary · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle documentary / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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