Underplayed Gems

Come on Children (1973)

Come on Children poster
Original title
Come On Children
Directed by
Allan King
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A filmmaker documents a group of teenagers, aged 13 to 19, living together on a farm for ten weeks without adult supervision or school. They cook, work, argue, play music, and talk about their lives, showing their personalities and conflicts as they spend time away from the city.

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What happens

Come On Children is a 1973 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Allan King. The film is a cinéma vérité take on the lives of youth that reside at farm house for a ten-week stay away from families and the city of Toronto. Filmed in the winter of early 1971, it documents the lives of a group of kids, aged 13 to 19, living together on a farm as a sort of social experiment. There are not any adults supervising and they are not going to school. Film introduces at the start the only narration where King says in that he thought would be interesting to study the characteristics that arise in each person as a result of this experiment. In part it has the filmmaker revisit the troubled teenager subculture of his film Warrendale, with the hippie-era generational conflicts of the 1960s spilling over into the 1970s. One of the teenagers in the film, aspiring musician Alex Živojinović, would soon go on to fame under the stage name Alex Lifeson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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