#Diane Kurys

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peppermint soda (1977)

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Tina Aumont in Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini aka Fellini's Casanova (1976)

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Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou in Entre nous (1983), dir. Diane Kurys

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Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou in Entre Nous | Coup de foudre (1983) dir. Diane Kurys

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Six Days, Six Nights (À la folie), Diane Kurys (1994)

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Entre Nous (1983)

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Peppermint Soda (1977) Dir. by Diane Kurys

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Diabolo menthe / Peppermint Soda Diane Kurys. 1977

Beach 93 Rue Pasteur, 14750 Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France See in map

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Coup de foudre (1983) Diane Kurys

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Entre nous (1983) dir. Diane Kurys

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Entre Nous (1983). A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.

Oh, I adored this one. Tender and intimate with breathlessly moving performances by Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert, it just radiates empathy and connection. Plus the cinematography and the score are both divine. Love it. 9/10.

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Peppermint Soda (1977)

The 1977 French coming-of-age drama Peppermint Soda is a lovely, densely detailed memoir of school age sisters’ adolescence in 1960s Paris.  There’s nothing especially flashy or dramatic about its visual style or narrative except maybe in its choice of subject, since its matter-of-fact approach to the daily drama of young girls’ lives does feel ahead of its time.  Rather, its frankness feels…

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Favorite films watched in November 2023:

Anatomy of a Fall (2023), dir. Justine Triet

Chimes at Midnight (1966), dir. Orson Welles

The Landlord (1970), dir. Hal Ashby

Weiner (2016), dir. Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg

Entre nous (1983), dir. Diane Kurys

A Woman Like Eve (1979), dir. Nouchka van Brakel

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Peppermint Soda (Diabolo menthe, dr. Diane Kurys, 1977) is underappreciated as a realistic chronicle of two sisters' early experiences of misogyny, predatory men, abuse (many of their teachers are absurdly cruel), cluelessly detatched parents, potential queerness, and - most interesting to me - political awakening.

Things suddenly Get Real when the girls are discussing politics in class and whether they should be learning about them. Frederique (Odile Michel), the elder sister, expresses anxiety about the nuclear bomb, but most of the girls are apathetic or joking until classmate Pascale (Corinne Dacla) recounts an antiwar demonstration she witnessed in 1962. The march was attacked by police outside the Charonne Metro station, killing nine including Daniel Féry, a 15 year old boy:

This sparks Frederique's political awakening - she becomes an antiwar activist and finds herself dealing with opposition from her mother (Anouk Ferjac), who thinks at 15 she is "too young" to be thinking about politics. Frederique reminds her mom that their Jewish identity makes it impossible to sit on the sidelines - that the problem of fascism will affect them if they don't act. Unbeknownst to her mother, hate is embedded in the power structures around them:

We stan an antifascist queen.

Frederique does experience antisemitism at the hands of a former friend during a communists vs. fascists fight at their school, and to make matters worse, she loses a close friend Perrine, who betrays Frederique when asked to take some moral stance - instead picking up her books and going to sit with the fascist girl, their formerly mutual friend:

How familiar does this feel? Fuck Perrine.

Frederique receives support from Pascale, and the two become good friends... and potentially more, given the lengthy gaze they exchange later in the film:

Anyway, this movie is underrated and I was sad when combing Tumblr for appreciation that there was limited actual commentary on what an apt coming-of-age film this is for young people in this moment. From suddenly noticing the leers of the men around you, to adults in your orbit continually minimizing your problems, to being penalized for following your conscience, Peppermint Soda feels almost as relevant now as it did in 1977.

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