How does television portray young people on their own terms, in their own time? Other than popular melodramas like 'Beverly Hills 90210', what efforts are made to describe the complex coming of age? In this session, three strongs dramas, each specifically set at a certain time and place and therefore different in style and story telling, lead us into the spirit of the young. The first two films are the start and the finale of a remarkable French television effort to describe youth in Europe from the 1960´s to the 1990´s. Nine film directors were asked to revive the time of their adolescence, using the music and style of each era. The third film portrays a young girl in present day Norway.
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