Thursday, September 29, 2016
Kids
Today's more André Téchiné.
Les roseaux savages / Wild Reeds (1993)
A group of provincial young people find themselves busting out of the restrictions that their bourgeois life presents.
Very nice. A universal theme. As usual there is a gay kid in the mix who is trying to figure out why he is different.
This is a great film for coming out. It does not offer answers so much as some insights and ways of thinking that would help any boy (the girl is not confused about sex) figure himself out in the sex department.
In any case it ia a beautiful film done in the countryside with lots of moving water, waving grass and, of course, reeds. The ones who bend in the wind and do not topple as a tree would.
I have seen it several times so a 5 out of Netflix5. Bravo.
