Look back: Do girls come of age only to fall in love with boys?
Would I want my daughter to watch a film where women come of age and discover things other than love? Absolutely.
Category / Coming-of-Age Essays
Look back: ‘Moonlight’: removing the physical armour
“Moonlight” (2016) is a poetic and universal tale. It is a coming-of-age story for everyone who has every questioned “Who am I?” The central character in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s story is a Black American young man in Miami, yet he is also all of us, in all locations of this world growing up and coming to terms with our unique identities and surroundings.
‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and finding a place in a man’s world
I first saw Gurinder Chadha’s “Bend It Like Beckham” (2002) in my Film as Literature class when I was sixteen. I remember the film sticking out to me because I wondered, why haven’t I seen this film yet? If I had seen this film when I was eight, would I still have quit my Flower Power U-10 soccer team?
‘Lady Bird’ and coming home
In Christine and her insecure and unkind imperfection, I see myself in high school. Though I was never as bold or outwardly rebellious, I shared her desire to run away from my hometown. Hers is Sacramento and mine was suburban Wisconsin, but the sentiment was the same: Anywhere is okay, as long as it’s not here.
Cinema Femme’s Coming-Of-Age Issue—Editor’s Letter
I’m very excited about Issue Six, our “Coming-Of-Age” issue. Our cover film is the Netflix hit “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” (2018), directed by Susan Johnson and based on Jenny Han’s novel of the same name. Laurine Cornuéjols illustrated the cover for this issue, […]