Xavier Dolan’s family drama, “I Killed my Mother,” (”J’ai tue ma mere”) was selected as Canada’s submission for an Oscar in the best foreign-language film category.
The 20-year-old Dolan, wrote, directed and stars in the semi-autobiographical film that took three prizes at Cannes, including the Art Cinema Award, the Regards Jeunes for first-time directors and the SACD Prize, recognizing the best French-language film. Read more of this article »
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 23, 2009 under Coming-of-age, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
The Vanished Empire (Ischeznuvshaya imperiya, Russia 2008), Karen Shakhnazarov’s beautiful coming-of-age story set at the brink of the end of the Soviet Empire, opens Friday, October 23 on San Francisco Film Society Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 10, 2009 under Coming-of-age, drama | Comments are off for this article
Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles,” will be released theatrically in the U.S. on November 25.
The coming-of-age drama that involves the legendary director’s 1937 staging of “Julius Caesar,” stars Zac Efron and Claire Danes and introduces Christian McKay as the young Orson Welles.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 20, 2009 under Coming-of-age, drama | Comments are off for this article
Still Green had its official premiere last week at the Showcase Cinemas in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Still Green stars Sarah Jones (Big Love, The Riches), Ryan Kelley (Mean Creek, Prayers for Bobby), Noah Segan (Brick, What We Do is Secret), and Douglas Spain (Band of Brothers, But I’m a Cheerleader). The film won Best Narrative Feature at the New England Film/Video Festival and Sprit of Independence- Best Ensemble Cast at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
In the film, a group of high school graduates rent a beach house the summer before going thier separate ways. An accident in the ocean tests thier friendship. The teens respond to the tragedy in a way some people find disturbing and others see as a beautiful act of loyalty.
My Sixteenth Summer is a coming-of-age film about the ups and downs of being 16-years-old. It centers around Samir (Ali Degan), an Iranian-American teenager struggling with all the pressures, highlights and disappointments of adolescence.
About My Sixteenth Summer:
Samir’s summer is looking pretty bleak. His spoiled sister is back from med school, his fresh off the boat parents get more foreign every day and it looks like he’s about to lose the girl of his dreams…to his best friend. In response, Samir ditches his high school friends and starts hanging out with a couple of twenty-somethings. But as Samir exchanges his adolescent woes for a look at the quarter-life, he starts to see that the other side of twenty isn’t all its cracked up to be…And that maybe being sixteen isn’t so bad.
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