A focus on Coming of Age movies and young talent with a goal of bringing you an honest impression of the Coming of Age value and to also facilitate NEW talent when I find it. I will also include an area for my personal interest like web 2.0 and other things.

Tag archive for ‘coming of age’

Cold Light

Cold Light

A beautiful nightmare is buried under a mountain of ice and snow…

Ina remote and snow-covered Icelandic village, a young boy discovers that he possesses an unusual gift.

Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran is a coming of age movie from which everyone can learn a lot ( especially someone as inexperienced and naive as I tend to be occasionally ). The movie is full with truth about life , women , smiles , friends and I am definitely going to follow some of the advices of Monsieur Ibrahim.

SkyKids

SkyKids

SkyKids - I am so excited to start writing this movie review. A movie with a cool title, suitable for a film, blog, forum. :-D. It is known either as “SkyKids” or “The FlyBoys”, which may cause some initial confusion for those of you who first look for it online. The IMDB entry is [...]

The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes

The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes

Well, that’s all. Just a song, but the past comes and goes,
comes and goes…
The memories of a child, that wonderful army I was telling you about.

Always ready to help when we’re threatened.

And what’s there that doesn’t threaten us!

CrissCross

CrissCross

“Crisscross” deals with the special relationship between a young single mother and her twelve-year old son.“Coming of age” film, and at the same time a sensitive drama. It is a combination which often produces powerful and touching masterpieces, this one being no exception.

Late Summer

Late Summer

On the eve of the opening of his first gallery show, a photographer remembers that special summer that he spent with his somewhat older cousin, the feelings that were awakened, and the unexpected turn of events behind his “best” photo.

King of the Hill

King of the Hill

Twelve-year-old Aaron is a smart boy - this is the first impression one gets from watching him reading his project at School. His imagination runs wild and helps him to play two different roles in life - being a student at the rich kids school and being a son of broke and unreliable parents.

Les quatre cents coups

Les quatre cents coups

The movie deals with the troubles which an average adolescence boy can get into - when understanding towards him lacks in the family. Antoine is a young lad who has never done wrong to anyone , goes to school and despite engaging in normal teenager mischiefs is just like your next door kid. His parents rarely pay attention to him -it almost seems that his existance is noticed only when he needs some money or when his mother demands something from him.

The Spanish Gardener

The Spanish Gardener

Despite the year in which this movie is made - it is worth seeing nowadays and I am glad that I was able to dig it out of my collection. The Spanish Gardener is a British movie and as such it carries the atmosphere typical for the movies produced in the country.

I am not scared

I am not scared

I wanted to see this movie so badly - but got a decent copy of it only recently. Now having seen it - I can say that it is one of the best coming of age tales with a thriller elements I have ever seen.