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Diabolo Menthe (1977)

Drama | 99 minutes
3,02 30 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 99 minuten

Alternative title: Peppermint Soda

Country: France

Directed by: Diane Kurys

Stars: Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel and Anouk Ferjac

IMDb score: 7,0 (1.910)

Releasedate: 14 December 1977

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Diabolo Menthe plot

In the fall of 1963, Anne becomes a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They have just returned from their summer trip to the beach with their father. The school starts again. For Frédérique, it is a year of her first serious love, her forays into politics (the Algerian question and "ban the bomb"), her first kiss with an older man, her first friend who abandons her, her first loss of friendship about values. For Anne, who watches her sister closely, it's been a year of her first period and learning to speak to boys, dealing with dishonest teachers, and sorting things out with her mother when she's in trouble.

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Movsin

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Still a sympathetic and at times heart-warming film about 13-16 year old high school girls.

As mentioned above, not always smoothly and often changing the subject, but what is going on is pretty much what the "Diabolo-Menthe" chanson captures so beautifully: In your lyceum folders are your dreams and little secrets, your words of love and tenderness that you keep to yourself and that people condemn, the first heartache, the small scars in your soul...

Older Moviewatchers - especially the ladies - will experience the film as an accurate snapshot of the first half of the 1960s, just before social and political protests would change a lot.

Natural acting.

In 1977 the film did not get further than a César nomination for sound and the Louis Delluc Prize for Diane Kurys.

It could be something more.

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Filmkriebel

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Partly nostalgic but not too much. Kurys looks back on 1963, the time when she was fifteen herself. Diabolo Menthe, referring to a trendy non-alcoholic drink from that time, has no real story but follows the daily lives of two school-going sisters, Anne (13 years old) and Frédérique (almost 16). The nostalgia is in the music and a sixties culture that is gradually moving away from the rigid Catholic system of the time, or the holiday snapshots that momentarily interrupt the film like photos. The run-up to May 68 is in the making and the emancipation of the youth sexually is beginning to reverberate. The less pleasant aspects of that time were an extremely authoritarian school board, in which every side step was severely punished. Bringing politics within the school walls was not done.

Kurys' film is not devoid of humor. They are small, sometimes almost inconspicuous moments. Anne, who announces her first lines to her mother, is received with a slap on the cheek. It sounds like tradition. And the teaching staff is depicted as a fairly unstable mess who are not taken seriously by the students. Nice image of a time when growing up was not always fun.

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