If you can buy into the premise, good luck to you. I didn't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2016

The screenplay is marred by clumsy foreshadowing and other contrivances, but Tchin and Sciamma have tapped into something genuine: the deep confusion at the dawn of sexuality.

| Dec 1, 2016

Age in Being 17 comes in awkward bursts, and yet the film moves sublimely. Director Tchin, 73 years old, is wise beyond his years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2016

These are characters Xavier Dolan could have a field day with - just imagine the high-pitched screaming matches bouncing off the surrounding mountain landscape. But Being 17 is quieter and sturdier than that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2016

What elevates the film is not just its beautiful setting in the French Pyrenees but also how the beautiful mountain exteriors serve as a metaphor for characters' inner lives.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2016

Few filmmakers have portrayed the messy reality of human desire and sexuality as consistently, as elegantly, and as powerfully as Andr Tchin.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2016

Overwrought, confused, and melodramatic, it reflects well what it's like being 17.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 27, 2016

Ultimately, there's a sense of just one thing after another, linked only by an overarching aura of portent that the characters themselves seem to be complicit in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2016

If the film has a governing principle, it's that love doesn't take root in a vacuum, and its path is never perfectly straight.

| Oct 13, 2016

Tchin, despite being 70, shows a sharp eye not just for how young people of today dress and accessorize, but how they carry themselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2016

Two masters of naturalism deliver a coming-of-age story that dares to let its characters chart their own paths.

| Original Score: B | Oct 6, 2016

A touching drama about raging hormones, bullying and sexual awakening - and the strongest film in many years by the post-New Wave French director Andr Tchin.

| Oct 6, 2016

Fila and Klein are equally good in roles that, while more predictable in outcome, benefit from small unexpected moments.

| Oct 6, 2016

Tchin has made one of his simplest and most elemental films, which is both Being 17's most arresting feature and its weakness.

| Original Score: B | Oct 6, 2016

Being 17 boldly examines the fear of letting go and giving in - the terror, in short, of becoming an adult.

| Oct 6, 2016

Calling to mind the sullen lovers of Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together, the young men of Being 17 are more gestural than verbal. Tchin intuitively favors movement over chatter, and he directs his young actors toward intimate, yearning performances.

| Oct 5, 2016