The Adolescent
The Adolescent is a French drama film directed by Jeanne Moreau in 1978, released January 1979. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Set deep in the French countryside just before the start of World War II, it shows the idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous Auvergne where a family from Paris has come to holiday with relatives. The family get-together marks a coming-of-age for daughter Marie, the adolescent of the title.
Plot
In the summer of 1939, Jean, a butcher in Paris, takes his family to a small town near Avignon for a stay with his widowed mother. Accompanying him is his Dutch wife Eva, and the couple's only child, twelve-year-old Marie. During the family's stay, Marie takes a liking to Alexandre, the thirty-year-old local doctor. Alexandre enjoys Marie's lively and intelligent company until one night Marie comes to the house where he lives alone and offers herself to him. Alexandre rejects Marie.
Cast
- Aure Atika
- Bérangère Bonvoisin
- Charles Millot
- Edith Clever
- Élisabeth Margoni
- Francis Huster
- Françoise Bette
- Hélène Vallier
- Hugues Quester
- Isabelle Sadoyan
- Jacques Rispal
- Jacques Weber
- Janine Darcey
- Jean Berger
- Jean-François Balmer
- Juliette Brac
- Maurice Baquet
- Michel Blanc
- Nadine Basile
- Pierre Forget
- Roger Blin
- Simone Signoret
More details
author | Jeanne Moreau |
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contentLocation | Auvergne |
director | Jeanne Moreau |
editor | Colette Leloup |
genre | drama |
keywords | avignon help married couple one night only child small town widowed mother |
musicBy | Philippe Sarde |
producer | Tarak Ben Ammar |
productionCompany | UniFrance |
publisher | Parafrance |