Being 17 (2016)
- Original title
- Quand on a 17 ans
- Directed by
- André Téchiné
- Genre
- drama film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 383 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two seventeen-year-old boys start off as hostile rivals, often fighting at school. As they spend more time together, their aggression gives way to a growing romantic and sexual connection.
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What happens
Being 17 (French: Quand on a 17 ans) is a 2016 French drama film directed by André Téchiné and starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila and Sandrine Kiberlain. The script was written by Téchiné in collaboration with Céline Sciamma. The plot follows the romantic and sexual awakening of two seventeen-year-old boys as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love. Being 17 borrows its title from the second half-line of the first verse of Roman, (1870) by Arthur Rimbaud: On n'est pas sérieux quand on a dix-sept ans. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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