coming of age
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Seeds (aka Cuernavaca) a Mexican coming-of-age story
After preadolescent Andy (Emilio Puente) sees his mother gets fatally shot in a random robbery, he is sent to live on the country estate of his paternal grandmother (the wonderful Carmen Maura) who he has never met before. She is rather cold and awkward with him and brushes off any enquiries of the whereabouts…
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Interested In : a contemporary coming out story about losing your virginity and more
Michael Witkes is the latest in a stream of gays actor who have created a web series which not acts as their therapy as they are based on their own lifes, but they also write themselves a plummy starring role too. Whereas Jack Tracy’s entertaining series History (we recently reviewed here) is based on…
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Nevrland : a post-gay coming of age story
17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town. The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly…
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The Harvesters
This dark and rather dismal coming of age tale is set South Africa’s central Free State province inhabited by Afrikaners made up of isolated farms where time seems to have stopped still. In fact it really is difficult to work out if this a period piece or not, and it is only the eventual…
