Just like American cinema never wearies of road movies, French cinema has long been littered with sexual coming-of-age films: tales of young people exploring their bodies, appetites and identities ...

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region, is a lively welcome.

In writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s unassumingly enchanting debut, a young man in the Jura region must care for his sister while attempting to win a cheesemaking competition. To that end, ...

Stephen Chbosky wrote his own movie adaptation of his eponymous novel, which became a sensation in the 2010s, and continues to be celebrated as one of the best coming-of-age movies of all time. It ...

In Hafsia Herzi's Cannes competition entry, newcomer Nadia Melliti plays a teenager struggling to reconcile her religious convictions with her burgeoning sexuality. By Jon Frosch Senior Editor, ...