Storyline

A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school, but his mother cannot afford it, so she sends him to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel wiles away his time in the shop, and learns about girls from the other boys in town. When he returns to visit his grandmother next year, it is obvious that he has grown up faster than his old friends.—Will Gilbert

Plot Keywords

boy, mother, grandmother, friend, girl, endearing, calm, tender, striking, south of france, paris, apartment, school, coming of age, adolescence, desire, loneliness, family, city vs. country, growing up, 1970s

Short Review

Mes Petites Amoureuses offers a distinctly cool, delicately nuanced study of a human being undergoing that strange process called 'growing up'.

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