house of un-american teen movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXyF_c0A4Hw

one of my friends just posted this movie trailer on her fb page today and its made me think what classic teen movies have i not seen in the vein of like dazed and confused, foxes and the virgin suicides. so yeah, foreign language (not necc) pretentious teen movies.

Battle Royale lol

lol maybe not what i meant but okay!

cmon this is totally a thing.

dunno, does this count? it's great any way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48V-DoaqJ8

yah probably. i thought of that but i'm not sure either. I have a feeling there's tons of awesome french teen movies w/ moody chainsmoking teens. its also, i mean, i don't just mean "movies about teenagers" bc that isn't really what at teen movie is. I mean, its kindof contrarian to go looking for non-american ones because the "teen movie" is such an american thing, a certain amerophilia is impt. maybe?

This was on the other day.

I honestly don't think I've seen any genuine "teen movies" from other countries... having a hard time coming up with examples. must be some Britishes ones that I've seen at least...

I believe Gurinder Chadha (of Bend It like Beckham) recently directed a film called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, which suggests plenty of UK existence for this sort of thing

I also feel certain Canada and Australia must have contributed here

Wild Reeds gave me serious dickpain in '96.

also presque rien.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8hHUaVyG0
kindof?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwVFQkOeLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzIvLbKWaE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9azoVd9es

thought of fucking amal first thing.

I didn't know that Swedish Love Story is a Roy Andersson film. I should seek that out.

Also..pre-teen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp4g9p_rgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRSlJbPNp0

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging is a brilliant middlegrade book (with sequels!) from the UK. Still my favorite slang for the act of shaving: Operation Smoothy Legs.

also maybe summer with monika counts

They show this movie on Nickelodeon here all the time. I haven't seen it but a friend of mine goes bonkers every time she sees a commercial for it.

blarg, xp the perfect snogging movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qg6n7V3kO4

i've never seen this is it kindof a teen movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-qhtdeBio

i feel like "at the beach" is the french equiv of "high school"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTswS-j8U4

also: "lighten up france"

despite stephan's presence, i didn't like that one bit.

this is surprisingly hard to come up with examples for.

was totally gonna say Gregory's Girl

yeah i know, i thought like slocki or someone was gonna jump in w/ loads of awesome examples. i dont know much about movies.

also, that was the first movie i saw w/ stephane rideau in it, kindof a good enough reason to enjoy it.

En Kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story) is all over the damn place right now, and I can't figure it out. I wrote a thing about it the other day...

http://www.mondosalvo.com/blog/?p=406

was it just rereleased or something?

No, it's from 1970.

Oh, REreleased...I think it played the festival circuit in 2008 because of a dvd reissue.

has anyone seen this? i remember it getting 5 stars in Neon magazine when it came out first.

no but wow

I'm a huge fan of Saint Clara, an Israeli supernatural teen movie from the 90's, made by the same folks who made Waltz With Bashir.

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F02E6DF163DF933A05752C0A961958260

I like the '60s East German beach musical, Heißer Sommer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0gO_JighOQ&feature=related

yes!!!! more like this! frank schobel looks like such a dreamboat!

Ha, he totally is! There are so many close-ups on his eyes of him just singing dreamy songs in German. You would love it ico. (It's on Netflix iirc)

Actually the guy I thought was the hottest in this movie turns out to be a supercreep who sells all their fun out to the state & gets mad everyone isn't being Communist enough.

oh man, Hot Summer is amazing. I saw a documentary about the Eastern European musical industry, in which the stars of Hot Summer, now middle-aged, reminisced about the days when they were young and beautiful and dominated the East German pop charts.

theres a 90's german movie about two teenage boys, one is about to be sent to borstal, so they have a night of fun and get into hi-jinks. quite funny and poignant. i remember they get challenged by a romanian circus act at one point. the name of the movie escapes me though.

Some Quebec ones, maybe:
C.R.A.Z.Y.
1981 (okay so the kids in this are 11/12 but I'm putting it in because it's still a 'coming of age' sort of thing)
Maman est chez le coiffeur

The director of the last one has made a couple other films that might fall into this category but I haven't seen them.

There's also The Trotsky, which takes place in Quebec but is in English.

http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/genou.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOgXsnxf_I4

& two from fernando eimbcke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68Q4WIUhG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6pU1c9J0ZI

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