Tag: coming of age

She gets a bit EMO and falls out with her friend, who is way nicer than she is.

Is it only during long summer months’ teenagers ever find maturity? The venerable institution of the coming-of-age drama would have ...

A smart, socially awkward loner attempts to navigate between teenage years and adulthood. Hundreds of films deal with this topic, ...

The view we have of ourselves is almost certainly not what other people see. Knowing this doesn’t stop everyone making ...

Great films are transportive - they cultivate a sense of time and place that feels lived-in and specific, and use ...

Lest we forget, Germany was until very recently a country literally split in two. Reunification has proven remarkably successful but ...

Fabricating convincing people is an incredibly tricky task. Add in too much drama and they become obvious creations. Too little ...

Films about mopey, misanthropic teenagers attempting to flee the quotidian plod of their domestic lives are dime a dozen in ...

What do Mahler, football, a newly discovered father and a seriously ill mother have in common? The answer is Victor ...

There is a moving, beautifully-filmed story about a handsome young German girl struggling for her life, and to come of ...