2016 · comedy · coming-of-age
The Exchange Student
Directed by Jim Ben Soussan1h 26m2016
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life hell.
Our read: The Exchange Student (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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