2022 · drama · comedy · coming-of-age
Forever Young
Directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi2h 6m2022
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
Our read: Forever Young (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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