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La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension
Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the emotional dramas of our teen years, and to claim we just want to tell our younger selves to relax and get a sense of humour. In fact, those long-repressed moments of euphoria and humiliation, so dangerous and potentially explosive, will guide us for the rest of our lives, whether or not we acknowledge it. Atlan’s title is a reference to Wilhelm Jensen’s 1902 novella Gradiva , much admired by Sigmund Freud, in which an archaeologist is transfixed by the image he sees in a Roman museum of a woman he names “Gra
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According to The Guardian’s source item, La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension, Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the emotional dramas of our teen years, and to claim we just want to tell our younger selves to relax and get a sense of humour. In fact, those long-repressed moments of euphoria and humiliation, so dangerous and potentially explosive, will guide us for the rest of our lives, whether or not we acknowledge it. Atlan’s title is a reference to Wilhelm Jensen’s 1902 novella Gradiva , much admired by Sigmund Freud, in which an archaeologist is transfixed by the image he sees in a Roman museum of a woman he names “Gra
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