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

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)

Trailer

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