Can we be honest ? Excuse my language, but French teenmovie sucks. We are really really bad with it. But last year, a little film released on french screen, it was "Les Beaux Gosses" directed by Riad Sattouf.
This director is a comics writter, he already published very funny comics like "La vie secrète des jeunes", "Manuel du puceau" (the title is strange, but the story is very fresh and good), and mostly "Pascal Brutal", a very hilarious story about a kind of french redneck in the future.
He never directed a film, but a producer proposed him to adapt his comics into a film about teenagers. He accepted, and it was the best idea in french cinema since 10 years.
This is the story of two teenagers in Rennes in Junior High School. They're not really cute, they dress without any sense of taste, they've got no girlfriends but they are obsessed by girls... Yeah, true teenage boys.
This film is a succession of little part of daily life, teen problems, but joy and optimism too. What is a good teenage movie ? It's when a story about teenagers is universal, when all teenagers in the country or in the world can identify them with story's characters. I'm sorry, but many details in "Les beaux gosses" remains me my own adolescence (don't worry, not everything...). Another thing interesting in this movie, there is no moral, or lessons to retain. Just one detail, adolescence is the worst part of your life, but after it could be really cool. Loosers suffer a lot during this period, but they can strengthen, and to face to their life with some weapons!
It proves a last certitude. Only people who have a terrible or complicated adolescence can make teenmovie, because it's a question of real life.
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I loved loved this film. A real pearl in the oyster shell of French cinema.
RépondreSupprimerCorrections: teen movies suck, really bad at it, on the French screen, comic book author/writer, French, proposed for him to adapt, French, little bits of daily life, identify themselves, remind me of my own, Another interesting thing, Losers, can get stronger.