Teen Stories 2002-2008 - 5-DVD Box Set ( Romans d'ados: 2002-2008 ) ( La fin de l'innocene (The end of innocence) / La crise (Crisis) / Les illusions perdues (Lost illusions) / Adultes, mais pas trop (Nearly Adults but…) )

Teen Stories 2002-2008 - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Romans d'ados: 2002-2008
Alternate Title: La fin de l'innocene (The end of innocence) / La crise (Crisis) / Les illusions perdues (Lost illusions) / Adultes, mais pas trop (Nearly Adults but…)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
406 min + 230 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Béatrice Bakhti

Written By:
Nasser Bakhti
Béatrice Bakhti

Actors:
Aurélie
Jordann
Mélanie
Thys
Rachel
Xavier
Virginie

Synopsis:

Adolescence is a difficult and often awkward age. It is a complex period, during which teenagers try to assert themselves on their way to adulthood. A period full of dangers, discoveries, experimentations, dreams and tough realities. This collection of four documentary films explores the 7-year development of seven teenagers from the age of twelve to eighteen years. It is an unprecedented immersion into the usually secret world of adolescence. With rare spontaneity, Aurélie, Jordann, Mélanie, Thys, Rachel, Xavier and Virginie share their reflections, joys, sorrows, hopes and disappointments with the audience. Through them and their parents, this series not only paints the picture of the fragile and distraught contemporary family, but also of an increasingly disorientated society. The disclosures are often amusing, sometimes cruel, but always apt and sincere. Love and sex, alcohol and drugs, school and work, conflicts with parents, and the need for independence: all these topics are addressed without any taboo. An immersion that causes the reflections of the spectators, who either take sides with the teenagers or with their parents. One catches oneself imagining how they will evolve over all those years. In short: everything you always wanted to know about teenagers in French-speaking Switzerland but were afraid to ask!

1: The end of innocence
Twelve-year-old Virgine, Xavier, Aurélie, Thys, Mélanie, Jordann and Rachel approach adolescence full of dreams but also with anxiety. They feel that they are changing and that it is time to assert themselves, especially as regards their parents. This is the time of the first family conflicts and the search for independence. They deliver their secrets with great sincerity, describe their problems and let us inside their world, showing us how difficult it is to leave the innocence of childhood behind and to discover the turmoil of adolescence. Laughter, tears, anger, doubts and revolt characterize the first episode.

2: Crisis
Mélanie, Xavier, Virginie, Jordann, Rachel, Thys and Aurélie are fourteen years old. The boys' voices break; the girls see their bodies change. Flirts, evenings out and drunkenness preoccupy them, while their parents desperately try to maintain - if not influence or authority - a modicum of communication with them. But the youngsters' need to assert themselves and to shape their identity disrupts their daily lives. Everything, or almost, becomes a source of conflict: phone bills, homecoming hours, and clothes… The rift between the teenagers and their parents gradually widens.

3: Lost illusions
At almost sixteen, the seven teenagers from western Switzerland are confronted with happy moments but mostly with the difficulties of adolescence. The first flirts, sexual experiences and jobs shake them up both mentally and physically. They now want to mature among their peers only, far away from their parents, who, in their mind, do not understand a thing about their lives. Rachel, Thys, Virginie, Jordann, Aurélie, Xavier and Mélanie evolve at great speed and, for some of them, in a totally unexpected way compared with the image they painted of themselves at twelve.

4: Nearly Adults but…
The seven teens from western Switzerland, who have been followed since their pre-adolescence, are now almost eighteen years old and faced with their coming of age! The freedom that goes with it and that they had so eagerly anticipated shortly before, appears to worry several of them. The responsibilities of adults, the army, and aspects of political life both scare and attract them. The choices and decisions take on full meaning and reality, and although they are still mischievous, they sound more serious. It's stock-taking time. With their newly acquired, still fragile maturity they look back on the long years spent on sharing their views in this exceptional series.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 17 January, 2012.

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