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What it's about
This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Writer
- Louis Malle
- Starring
- Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin
Details
- Release date
- Oct 17, 1971
- Language
- French, Latin, Italian, English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Country
- France, Italy, West Germany
- Box office
- $1,160,784
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
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