Une enfance

Name: Une enfance
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015-09-23
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Alexi Mathieu, Angelica Sarre, Pierre Deladonchamps

20152015
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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Drama

As summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on... Read allAs summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on the slide and a stepfather who keeps her down.As summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on the slide and a stepfather who keeps her down.

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

310

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

92,603

29,414

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Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination

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Pierre Deladonchamps and Alexi Mathieu in Une enfance (2015)

Pierre Deladonchamps, Angelica Sarre, Alexi Mathieu, and Jules Gauzelin in Une enfance (2015)

Angelica Sarre and Alexi Mathieu in Une enfance (2015)

Alexi Mathieu and Jules Gauzelin in Une enfance (2015)

Angelica Sarre, Alexi Mathieu, and Jules Gauzelin in Une enfance (2015)

Featured review

7/10

Sometimes it's hard to be a kid

During a particularly difficult summer, Jimmy, a 13-year-old boy, is forced to grow up in order to fight the misfortunes of his life.

It's part of the genre in which the story is the main factor, and the way we look at it and interpret it. It is quite slow, perhaps boring for many people, but it is part of the way the plot unfolds, and what it is like to be in the shoes of someone who has no dreams, goals or even a home.

The dialogues are not elaborated, they go straight for what's important, and that's a good thing for the film, which lives on the simplicity and humanity of the people it portrays.

It should be noted that the cast features professional and amateur actors, and the gap between them is hardly noticed.

The social problems scrutinized in Une Enfance are transversal to several European societies (and in several other parts of the globe), however, I feel that it is one of those melodramas that always work better in French, I cannot explain why.

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