The Year My Voice Broke (1987)

Directed by

John Duigan

Genre

drama film, romance film, coming-of-age film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Danny looks back on a year in his Australian childhood when he and his best friend Freya began to grow apart. The story follows their changing relationship as adolescence brings new feelings and distances between them.

nostalgictenderbittersweetslow-pacedmelancholicintimateawkwardreflective

What happens

The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 Australian coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen and Ben Mendelsohn. Set in 1962 in the rural Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, it was the first in a projected trilogy of films centred on the experiences of an awkward Australian boy, based on the childhood of writer/director John Duigan. The film itself is a series of interconnected segments narrated by Danny who recollects how he and his best friend Freya grew apart over the course of one year. Although the trilogy never came to fruition, it was followed by a 1991 sequel, Flirting. The film was the recipient of the 1987 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, a prize which Flirting also won in 1990. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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