![]() ![]() “We are delighted to welcome within Mediawan a team as creative and renowned as the Submarine team,” said Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO of Mediawan Pictures. The big screen has its own furrow to hoe.Justine Triet's 'Anatomy of a Fall' Wins Palme d'Or at 2023 Cannes Film FestivalĪmong their upcoming projects are drama series The Kollective written by Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero showrunner Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Rvaglia and Safe Harbor a true-crime-inspired series by Ozark co-creator Mark Williams. Yet it should also foster "the Bildung of the reader to a greater extent than any other type of novel." It should portray "the hero's Bildung (formation) as it begins and proceeds to a certain level of perfection". The term was coined by a critic called Karl Morgenstern in the 1820s. It has its roots in the Bildungsroman, perhaps Germany's most significant contribution to the flowering of the novel. Other films about adolescence have provided much the same kind of comfort as Submarine, yet the coming-of-age story started out as more than a means of flattering those who are safely beyond the torments of their youth. How reassuring to learn that in our young day they would have apparently made us lovable. Maybe we know deep down that at his age we too possessed such qualities. He describes Oliver as "mean and distant and selfish". ![]() Ayoade knows how to make an escapade like this look as winsome as could be. Hang on, though doesn't that make us sound just a tiny bit horrible? Not to worry. We'd find a fat girl and push her into a pond, just to impress our sweetheart. For us, bullying was more than a nasty remark on Facebook. For we were cooler, bolder and tougher than our puny contemporary counterparts. The cosseted youth of today may be tiresomely self-obsessed we, however, didn't lock ourselves in our rooms with headphones clamped to our ears: we applied ourselves instead to saving our parents' marriages. Nowadays, skin trouble sometimes seems enough to destroy young lives Jordana wears her barely perceptible eczema like a fashion accessory. Real teens often lose the capacity to communicate Oliver turns his own life into a screenplay. Yet back in the 80s, if Oliver and his girlfriend Jordana are anything to go by, they were quite unspeakably cute. Many of today's adolescents may seem gauche, mulish and angry. It's to this need that cinema seems to be addressing itself. ![]() Perhaps, though, we want to believe we did. Few of us emerge from this ordeal with our self-regard unscathed. Amidst its swirling emotions, raging hormones and many-fronted conflicts, we shape the identity that will stay with us into adulthood. Adolescence is the most intense of life-stages. There seems a bit more to all this than straightforward nostalgia. The book on which his film is based was set in 1997 in that year its author, Joe Dunthorne, and his hero Oliver were both aged 15 and living in Swansea. In 1986, Ayoade, who's now 33, would himself have been approaching puberty. It's not adolescence itself that attracts either film-makers or the rest of us it's the urge to taste once more the madeleines of our very own temps perdu. So for that matter are A Nous les Petites Anglaises, Diabolo Menthe and the granddaddy of them all, Les Quatre Cents Coups.Īudiences seem happy enough with this approach, but it points to an obvious conclusion. The likes of American Graffiti, Dazed and Confused, The Last Picture Show, My Girl and Stand by Me are all set in days of yore, but not very yore. Lately we've had An Education, and before that Billy Elliot and This Is England, but it's not just us. ![]()
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