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The Adolescent (1979)

The Adolescent poster
Original title
L'Adolescente
Directed by
Jeanne Moreau
Genre
drama film, coming-of-age film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl spends a summer in a remote French village with her relatives before World War II breaks out. She experiences the first stirrings of adulthood amid the rhythms of country life.

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What happens

The Adolescent (French: L'Adolescente) is a French drama film directed by Jeanne Moreau in 1978, released January 1979. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Set deep in the French countryside just before the start of World War II, it shows the idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous Auvergne where a family from Paris has come to holiday with relatives. The family get-together marks a coming-of-age for daughter Marie, the adolescent of the title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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