Cast:Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen, Fabien Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Micheline Bona, Henri Poirier, Liliane Sorval, Corinne Kersten, Eric Walter, François Werner, René Bouloc, Jacqueline Chauvaud, Jacques Gheusi, Yvon Lec, Jean-Pierre Pessoz, Bernadette Robert, Jacques Sereys, Éric Burnelli, Nicole Carrière, Michel Charrel, Huguette Faget, Isabelle Kloucowski, Lia Wanital
Synopsis
This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
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