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  • 2012
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary In Kids of Today, legendary seventy’s French rock critic Yves Adrien becomes an obsession of a young counterculture group. Music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road through the generational collision. From the opening scene, the film uses William S. Burroughs cut up style storytelling with an excerpt from the classic silen...

Directed By: Jérôme de Missolz

Written By: Pierre Hodgson, Jean-François Sanz, Jérôme de Missolz

  • 2012
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 37 m

Kids of Today

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Summary In Kids of Today, legendary seventy’s French rock critic Yves Adrien becomes an obsession of a young counterculture group. Music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road through the generational collision. From the opening scene, the film uses William S. Burroughs cut up style storytelling with an excerpt from the classic silen...

Directed By: Jérôme de Missolz

Written By: Pierre Hodgson, Jean-François Sanz, Jérôme de Missolz

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75
Apr 13, 2012
While this uncataloguable and entrancing film gazes back in nostalgia to a time of performance-art priapism when everyone seems to have known Warhol, it also leaves room for a particularly hopeful diagnosis of the present.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 12, 2012
This bid to connect clubbing elders with their young counterparts, though, is undercut by a nostalgic insistence that the partying was a lot more fun, wild and meaningful back in the day.
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40
Apr 10, 2012
Refraining images of the mind-controlled sleepwalker Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari seem to submit Adrien as a Svengali-like figure to the kids, even as his "Iggy used to say . . ." pickups to fresh-faced scenesters don't seem to pay off.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Love Streams Productions, Agnès b. Productions, Arte France Cinéma, White Rabbit, ARTE
Release Date Apr 13, 2012
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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