Criterion Collection Themes - Growing Pains

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Coming of age isn’t easy—especially in the Criterion catalog. Not all the kids in the films below had to resort to, say, primitive savagery on a desert island following an authority-figure-obliterating plane crash, but other extreme youthful horrors abound, whether related to sex, war, poverty, or high school. Where some of these characters would end up as adults we can only speculate. One thing’s for sure: the young actors who played them—from Bicycle Thieves’ Enzo Staiola to The 400 Blows’ Jean-Pierre Léaud to Mouchette’s Nadine Nortier—gave some of the most fearless, arresting performances ever captured on-screen.

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    Au revoir les enfants

    1987 — a.k.a. Au Revoir les Enfants, in 13 top lists Check
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    Ostre sledované vlaky

    1966 — a.k.a. Closely Watched Trains, in 14 top lists Check
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    Jeux interdits

    1952 — a.k.a. Forbidden Games, in 15 top lists Check
  4. 21 new

    Pokolenie

    1955 — a.k.a. A Generation, in 2 top lists Check
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    Ivanovo detstvo

    1962 — a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood, in 12 top lists Check
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    Lacombe Lucien

    1974, in 8 top lists Check
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    Die Blechtrommel

    1979 — a.k.a. The Tin Drum, in 14 top lists Check
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