Just like American cinema never wearies of road movies, French cinema has long been littered with sexual coming-of-age films: tales of young people exploring their bodies, appetites and identities ...

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region, is a lively welcome.

Bonjour Tristesse is a divergent, understated remake in an economy of such films, which goes down more pensive thematic and stylistic avenues. In the summer in the south of France, teenage Cécile ...

Based on Françoise Sagan's 1954 novella, the film marks Durga Chew-Bose’s directorial debut. The melancholy of coming of age is captured in the whimsically dark “Bonjour Tristesse,” based on Françoise ...

In Hafsia Herzi's Cannes competition entry, newcomer Nadia Melliti plays a teenager struggling to reconcile her religious convictions with her burgeoning sexuality. By Jon Frosch Senior Editor, ...