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‘And Their Children After Them’ Review: Boukherma Brothers’ Youth Drama Weighed Down By Repetitive Narrative – Venice Film Festival
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There is the faint sound of a callback to Francois Truffaut in Venice Film Festival competition title And Their Children After Them( Leurs Enfants Après Eux), a sunlit story of three teenagers set in a moribund French steel town in the 1990s. “Run to the Hills” accompanies a rush by two boys on their bicycles to the local nudist beach in the first of four summers that form the film’s chapters, while the Springsteen anthem ends with a roar a story in which the smoking gun is always a motorbike. Steph comes from a family better off than Anthony’s, but feels the chill of inferiority at university where, she says, her contemporaries “were studying before they were born.” Hacine is brighter than she is – we see a glimpse of the austere literary paperbacks on his desk when he is just a boy – but his color is against him; he returns from Morocco with a better way to make money than he is going to find at the toothless local labor exchange.
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