This film was shocking in it's portrayal of youth gone wild. On thinking about it later I thought to myself it is somewhere between traditional softcore porn and hardcore porn. During the film two people got up to leave and exited the theater. I was eager to see how it would end. Eventually it reached the point where the lead actress, who reminded me of Helena Bonham Carter, got sick and had to go to the doctor. It eventually it was revealed that all the lude behavior by the young adolescents caught up with them. They were diagnosed with syphilis and a few got pregnant. Not to mention their parents were disappointed. It was a display of pure youthful energy gone wild. I was entertained, but I felt dirty while watching the film. I wondered if this was a true story or something someone made up?
The performances and production were spot on. I wish I had been this free when I was sixteen. It makes me recall my sexual activity when I was 16. Which I can say was nowhere nea r these kids level of pleasure. Plus they were doing cocaine and smoking way too much. But I guess your only young once, right?
This was an interesting film. I liked it for it's brashness. For pushing the envelope further about adolescent sex activity. I mean it isn't illegal to show some of the scenes if the actors were still minors? I don't know. The crowd was mostly older people. Which makes me sad about film culture's future. If there aren't many young people going to the movies than what does the future hold for film? Perhaps it's just the venue and the film. Lincoln Center is pretty high brow for film. The theater was big enough for about a 100 people. And the film was French and in subtitles.
Well I liked it immensely and it was a great film to start off my French Film Festival visit to Lincoln Center.
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