Geneviève

Geneviève (1964)

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love. One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Jean Rouch, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.

Date of release
1964-10-01
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (10)
Runtime
28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Michel Brault

Casting

Interesting facts

The Adolescents, also known as That Tender Age or Flower of Youth, is a drama anthology film, released in 1964. A coproduction of companies from Canada, France, Italy and Japan, the film consists of four short films, each by a director from one of the participating countries, about youth.

Production

The original concept was devised by the National Film Board of Canada, and presented to French, Italian and Japanese producers at the 1963 Montreal International Film Festival.

All four of the films have also been separately screened on their own as standalone short films.

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