Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "coming-of-age"

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С!ose **** (2022, Eden Dambrine, Gustav de Waele, Emilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker) – Classic Movie Review 12,367

Lukas Dhont ‘s heart-rending, honest and true 2022 Belgian coming-of-age drama Close is a fiercely intense film about love and pain and the whole damn thing. It won the Grand Prix at Cannes and was […]

Dec, 17

Les Amoureux [Lovers] *** (1994, Nathalie Richard, Pascal Cervo, Olaf Lubaszenko) – Classic Movie Review 12,344

Pascal Cervo stars as 15-year old Marc, who is un-naturally fixated on his older half-sister Vivien (Nathalie Richard), in the 1994 French film Les Amoureux.  Director Catherine Corsini’s 1994 French coming-of-age romantic drama Les Amoureux […]

Nov, 14

Boys [Jongens] **** (2014, Gijs Blom, Ko Zandvliet, Jonas Smulders, Ton Kas) – Classic Movie Review 12,337

Gijs Blom stars in the exceptional 2014 coming-of-age romantic drama Boys [Jongens] as Dutch gay teen athlete Sieg, who finds an unexpected sexual awakening with his relay race teammate Marc. Gijs Blom stars in the […]

Oct, 24

Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] *** (1977, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel) – Classic Movie Review 11,804

Writer-director Diane Kurys’s French 1977 drama Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] stars Eléonore Klarwein and Odile Michel, and won the Prix Louis-Delluc. This autobiographical tale from début director Kurys follows one year in the lives of two […]

Dec, 19

Sequin in a Blue Room **** (2019, Conor Leach, Simon Croker, Anthony Brandon Wong, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) – Movie Review

Samuel Van Grinsven’s 2019 accomplished and imaginative coming-of-age Australian independent film eye-opener Sequin in a Blue Room stars Conor Leach in his feature film debut as high schooler Sequin, a teenage big-city boy who hunts […]

Dec, 14

That Night ** (1992, C Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Eliza Dushku, Helen Shaver, Katherine Heigl) – Classic Movie Review 11,695

Writer-director Craig Bolotin’s 1992 American coming-of-age romantic drama film That Night is based on Alice McDermott’s 1987 novel, and stars C Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Eliza Dushku, Helen Shaver and Katherine Heigl. It is an […]

Nov, 02

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

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