The Adolescents
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Micaela Esdra
Esmeralda Ruspoli
Giancarlo Shragia
Muni Castel
Franco Marino
Hilde Reiner
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FIAMMETTA: Fiammetta is a 14-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a mansion on an old estate near Florence. Each day she watches tourists visiting the grounds of the estate and broods over memories of her deceased father. Sullen in her misery, Fiammetta has forced her mother, a beautiful woman, into giving up her lover. Filled with resentments she is too young to comprehend, the young girl struggles to maintain some form of contact with her mother. GENEVIEVE: Geneviève and Louise are 17-year-olds attending a winter carnival in Montreal. Louise has an early morning date to meet a young man, Bernard, in church, but she oversleeps, and Geneviève goes in her place. After spending the day with Bernard, Geneviève brings him back to her room, and upon noticing that Louise is out, impulsively kisses him. Their embrace is silently witnessed by Louise. On their way home, Geneviève tells her friend that she spent the day alone, and Louise does not challenge her. MARIE-FRANCE AND VERONICA: Two well-to-do, Parisian 16-year-olds, Marie-France and Veronica, are totally different. Veronica travels with a fast set constantly in search of thrills. Bored with her preoccupied father, she submits to a sexual assault and works as a photographer's model in between her numerous flirtatious affairs. She sees no future for herself except a marriage of convenience when she is 25 and life is over. Marie-France, on the other hand, is close to her family and avoids wild parties, preferring instead to read Baudelaire. Although an old friend presumes that family life is dying out, she has decided that family life is still possible for her generation.
Cast
Micaela Esdra
Esmeralda Ruspoli
Giancarlo Shragia
Muni Castel
Franco Marino
Hilde Reiner
Geneviève Bujold
Louise Marleau
Bernard Arcand
Marie-france De Chabaneix
Véronique Duval
Nadine Ballot
Marc Kalinoski
Michel Aracheguesne
Maurice Pialat
Gilles Quéant
Crew
Gian Vittorio Baldi
Gian Vittorio Baldi
Claudine Bouché
Michel Brault
Dominico Gorgolini
Werner Nold
Alex Pelletier
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch
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Shown at the 1964 Venice Film Festival under the title La fleur de l'âge, ou les adolescentes; running time: 110 min. Commercial release in Canada, France, Italy, or Japan is unconfirmed. Italian title: Le adolescenti. Alternative U. S. title: That Tender Age. The Japanese segment, "Ako," directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, was deleted in U. S. release version.
