Jeunesse (2013)
Directed by Justine Malle

Drama
aka: Youth

Film Synopsis

I was 20 in 1995 when my father, the filmmaker Louis Malle, died.  Just as I was beginning to fall in love with a boy in my class and escape from the influence of my father, he began to show the first symptoms of the illness that would take him from me.   I was overwhelmed, as much by the shock of the news of my father's illness as by the certainty that I was the cause of it through my desire for independence...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Justine Malle
  • Script: Justine Malle, Cécile Vargaftig
  • Cinematographer: Nicolas Pernot
  • Cast: Émile Bertherat (Benjamin), Didier Bezace (Father), Esther Garrel (Juliette), Johannes Oliver Hamm (Blond)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 72 min
  • Aka: Youth

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