This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-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.

Starring:

Annie Savarin, Ave Ninchi, Benoît Ferreux, Bernadette Robert, Daniel Gelin, Gila von Weitershausen, Henri Poirier, Huguette Faget, Isabelle Kloucowski, Jacques Gheusi, Jacques Sereys, Lea Massari, Liliane Sorval, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Charrel, Rene Bouloc, Yvon Lec

Genre:

Drama