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Forever Young

Les Amandiers

2022

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sofiane Bennacer, Louis Garrel, Micha Lescot ...

5.9

464

Drama. Comedy At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"The overriding element you take away from the film is the truly overwhelming degree of narcissism these people feel with little reason to warrant it. This element alone makes the film a major turn-off."
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The film may be a draining, somewhat stressful experience for anyone remotely introverted. Still, there is an infectious exuberance to the picture, which unfolds like a scrapbook of intensely felt memories"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Endlessly tedious story [and] woeful soap (...) But what is exasperating about the film is its reluctance to dramatise the teaching: to show the young people themselves simply getting better at acting (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s a sweet but oddly circumspect film, ruled by a friction between warring demands: the allure of wistful memories and the rigor of complex appraisal."
		Nicholas Barber The Wrap	"It's always watchable, and it has a distinctively grainy, intimate look, but the vague, generic characters and incidents are the kind of thing you might scribble on the back of an envelope without having done any research at all"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"The jaunty tone turns glib when the actors have a collective AIDS scare. But 'Forever Young' is the sort of sprawling seriocomedy in which that level of terror barely causes a ripple"
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi delivers a beautifully mature work, diving back into the vibrant and initiatory, young universe of student-actors at Patrice Chéreau’s Théâtre des Amandiers"

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