Japanese

Program 15       Too Real for TV


 

Seventeen


1983 / Color / Digital File (Original: 16mm) / 120 min

- Film by: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
Source: DeMott/Kreines Films

Seventeen is an astonishing portrait of workingclass Americans coming to age and one of the great films of Direct Cinema. An unblinking treatment of kids doing what kids do, the love and care with which it was shot is palpable in every scene.