The Adolescent
In 1939, a 13-year-old girl develops a crush on the town's Jewish doctor while visiting her grandmother. Her parents have an affair with the doctor. When her father returns, tensions arise regarding t…
The Adolescent
In 1939, a 13-year-old girl develops a crush on the town's Jewish doctor while visiting her grandmother. Her parents have an affair with the doctor. When her father returns, tensions arise regarding the relationships and the impending war. In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, and Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor, and is despondent when he treats her like a child. When her father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to help with a relative's harvest, her mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When Papa returns, what will the family and the doctor do? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
The Adolescent
Drama
Film Details
In 1939, a 13-year-old girl develops a crush on the town's Jewish doctor while visiting her grandmother. Her parents have an affair with the doctor. When her father returns, tensions arise regarding the relationships and the impending war.
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, and Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor, and is despondent when he treats her like a child.
When her father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to help with a relative's harvest, her mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When Papa returns, what will the family and the doctor do? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>.