In the 1960s in a small island off the coast of New England, Sam and Suzy feel displaced from the people they live with. After meeting in a theatrical play where Suzy acts the two teens begin to exchange letters regularly. Letters of love and plans to escape to live a great love they nourish…
Le Gamin au vélo – movie journal #14
This the the story of a boy abandoned by his father in an orphanage. He goes out looking for his bike which he believes is still in the apartment where he lived. By chance between events he meets a hairdresser (Cécile de France) who later agrees to welcome him at weekends. It nourishes an immense…
Submarine – movie journal #13
Oliver Tate has two great ambitions at age fifteen: saving his parent's marriage through a carefully planned intervention; And lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried about an odd case that his mother has, Oliver 'controls' the sexual life of his parents and forges love letters from his mother to father. Oliver nurtures a…
L’Auberge Espagnole – movie journal #12
Leaving our parent's house to study or just for an experience outside our own country is for many a true adventure. L'Auberge Espagnole shows us this side of life of young people who discover their similarities and their differences learning how to live with them and all together. Everything in the film is portrayed with…
Tomboy – movie journal #11
The story of a girl who dresses, acts and introduces herself to everyone as being a boy - a tomboy girl. This is the meaning of this movie tittle by Celine Scianma. Because of her father's new job a 10-year-old pre-teen is forced to move from Paris to her mother and younger sister's house. This…
70’s & Tim Burton – Dark Shadows – movie journal #10
There are fails and good things in this Dark Shadows. You always want more when it comes to a Tim Burton's fruit. Honorable gentleman, who returns with a magnificent black comedy (as only he knows and can do), where vampires, witches and humans are completely out of the ordinary intersect in a small American town…