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Posts Tagged ‘Coming of Age’

Les Quatre Cents Coups / The 400 Blows (1959)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , on October 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

François Truffaut’s Nouvelle Vague classics. I Love it~
Story: 14 year old boy Antoine Doinel is neglected and unloved at home and undermined at school. He skipped school with his best friend to have fun and engaged in petty crimes. When Antoine was caught stealing his father’s typewriter, he was sent to delinquent correction center…
The boys [...]

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Bonjour Tristesse

Posted in Novel, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Bonjour Tristesse (1955)
by Françoise Sagan
I better write down my thoughts before my memory starts to fade. I admit I read this solely out of my slight Francophile tendency and cute cover. ^_- Bonjour Tristesse means ‘Hello Sorrow.’ Author Françoise Sagan, one of famous French literary prodigies , wrote it when she was only 17 years [...]

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I’m Not Scared (2003)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , on November 15, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

I’m Not Scared is an emotional and powerful thriller/drama from Italy about moral, choice, betrayal and courage, I love it very much. It’s a classic coming-of-age and loss of innocent story about a boy being forced into make a difficult moral choice and decision too early for his age.

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