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And Their Children After Them

2024 · 146 min

A slow, sunlit drift through restless summers, heavy with the ache of growing up and the quiet weight of where you come from.

Directed by: Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami

Overview: In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.

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Directed by: Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
family
class
identity
friendship
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
Written by: Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
Starring: Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Anouk Villemin, Louis Memmi, Louise Lehry
Music: Amaury Chabauty
Cinematography: Augustin Barbaroux
Runtime: 146 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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