French Films with Ephebopilia and Age-Discrepant Relationships
November 2, 2012 1:03 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for French films with age-discrepant relationships and ephebopilia like Claire's Knee (French: Le genou de Claire), The Stepfather (French: Beau-père), The Little Thief (French: La Petite Voleuse) and Série noire for a chapter in my new book The Allure of Nymphets From Charlie Chaplin to Mark Sanchez Man’s Fascination with Young Women. Thanks in advance!
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Buñuel's Tristana, and the similar (but Spanish) Viridiana. Neither film is about a nymphet, but at 19, both heroines scrape under the wire of ephebophilia.
Besson's Léon.
In a very weird way, Malle's Zazie dans le Métro. You'd have to see it to see what I mean.
posted by ubiquity at 1:16 PM on November 2, 2012
Besson's Léon.
In a very weird way, Malle's Zazie dans le Métro. You'd have to see it to see what I mean.
posted by ubiquity at 1:16 PM on November 2, 2012
A reversal of the usual older man/young girl dynamic is Le Petit Amour (French title: Kung Fu Master), directed by the always-interesting Agnes Varda.
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 1:29 PM on November 2, 2012
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 1:29 PM on November 2, 2012
Serge Gainsbourg's "Lemon Incest" and Mylene Farmer's "Maman a Tort" if you want to branch out into music videos.
"The Swimming Pool", about a British author who falls for a young girl while staying in the French countryside, and "Elles", about a French author writing about college-student prostitutes, are two more. The girls aren't *that* young, but the movies do kind of suggest that being young and sexual is better than being old and respectable.
posted by subdee at 1:31 PM on November 2, 2012
"The Swimming Pool", about a British author who falls for a young girl while staying in the French countryside, and "Elles", about a French author writing about college-student prostitutes, are two more. The girls aren't *that* young, but the movies do kind of suggest that being young and sexual is better than being old and respectable.
posted by subdee at 1:31 PM on November 2, 2012
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posted by xingcat at 1:08 PM on November 2, 2012