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Being 17

Panorama

Téchiné’s (has) controlled vision and superb direction of actors

Screen Daily
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Andre Techine
  • France 2016
  • 114 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

High in the spectacular Pyrenees, Marianne, the local doctor, is called out to an isolated farm to tend to an ailing woman. She takes an instant liking to her patient’s adopted son, the handsome Thomas. When the boy’s mother is admitted to hospital, Marianne invites Thomas to stay with her and her son Damien. She’s unaware of the longstanding antagonism between the two.

Being 17 is an intimate, engrossing and original coming-of-age drama.

Filmography: The Girl on the Train (2009), Witnesses (2007), Changing Times (2004), Alice and Martin (1998), Hotel America (1981).


  • Director Andre Techine
  • Production Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
  • Script Andre Techine, Celine Sciamma
  • Cinematography Julien Hirsch
  • Editing Albertine Lastera
  • Music Alexis Rault
  • Festivals Berlin
  • Actors Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret
  • Source Elle Driver, Paris

Being 17