Tag: coming-of-age

Redmond Bacon - 10-08-2022

This sensitive Canadian non-binary coming-of-age story is pleasant enough, but it's unlikely to make any serious impact — live from Locarno. [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 09-08-2022

This miserablist French coming-of-age story has a lot of craft, but is in the service of an irredeemable storyline — live from Locarno [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 05-03-2021

The flush of first love is excellently rendered in this touching Ukrainian coming-of-age drama - live from Berlin [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 02-03-2021

The story of a writer as a young man is excellently compressed into a sleek 84 minutes in this affecting French film - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Paul Risker - 08-12-2020

German drama captures the raw emotions and the ignorance of youth to their impending existential crisis - in cinemas and on VoD platforms on Friday, December 11th [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 19-11-2020

This nostalgic and bittersweet look at life behind the Iron Curtain radiates with charm — live from Tallinn [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 12-11-2020

Refreshing, intersectional queer coming-of-age tale investigates Germany's failure to integrate second- and third-generation "foreigners" - on Digital on Monday, December 7th [Read More...]

Francesco Bacci - 31-05-2017

Sexual coming-of-age tale about three adolescents in London deals with male peer pressure and paedophilia - from the East End Film Festival [Read More...]