Seventeen Years Old| 1hr : 22mins
Director: Didier Nion | Producer: Mille et Une Films
Focus Years: 2003 | Country: France
Synopsis:
"There was a time when I had too much respect for nature. I used to look at things and landscapes
and leave them alone.
That’s over, now I will intervene."
-Henri Michaux (Mes Propriétés/My Properties)
Jean-Benoît is seventeen and lives with his mother in the suburbs of Rouen. When he was twelve,
his father unexpectedly committed suicide. As a vulnerable adolescent, threatened by temptations of self-destruction and irresolute half-measures, he is permanently on the razor’s edge. At the end of the summer, he embarks on an apprenticeship to be a mechanic — a promise he wants to keep for his father’s sake: to learn a trade, to prove himself and make something of himself. But Jean-Benoît is faced with more than one apprenticeship. His meeting with a young woman, Héléna, with whom he discovers love and kindness, comes up against the abdication of parental
responsibility and violence of a mother. And he also has to settle into life in the garage, among
men.
Filmed for over three years, the film is part of the process and becomes a place of learning and
reflection in its own right. By confronting Jean-Benoît with his own image, it becomes a relay
and gives him the means to act; work carried out in common, to recreate the difficulty and delicacy of becoming an adult.
Seventeen Years Old
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1hr : 22mins
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