The filmmaker seems to have forgotten the hard-won lessons of "Being 17," dialing down any hint of life’s thrilling uncertainty for a stodgily theatrical approach. André Téchiné’s “Golden Years” is a ...
What can one do when someone from your family falls into the grips of terrorism? This is what Téchiné’s Adieu à la nuit (Farewell to the Night), premiering at the Berlinale, explores. Starring a ...
Andre Techine's latest, 'Golden Years' ('Nos Annees Folles'), is based on a true story of a French army deserter who disguised himself as a woman to evade the police during World War I. By Jon Frosch ...
Téchiné, whose credits include “Rendez-Vous,” “My Favorite Season,” “Wild Reeds” and 2016 Berlinale Competition title “Being Seventeen,” describes the film as both “an odyssey of sexual identity” and ...
Because Techine functions as a true auteur, orbiting the same themes throughout his career, the works form a more unified package than many of Lionsgate’s star-oriented sets (one film, 1981’s “Hotel ...
Twenty-two years after 'Wild Reeds,' Andre Techine again depicts the awakening of gay adolescent desire and self-knowledge in this drama set in the French Pyrenees. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...
André Téchiné’s “Being 17” tells the story of two boys who can’t keep their hands off each other, and for reasons that neither of them can easily identify. One day Thomas (Corentin Fila) trips Damien ...
Well into his 70s, Andre Techine delivers his most youthful film yet, a tale of burgeoning gay romance co-written by Celine Sciamma. Seventeen is that age that adults patronizingly refer to as one of ...
In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than 40 years ...
There’s a brilliant tension at the heart of the new film by the consistently challenging French director André Téchiné, “The Girl on the Train.” This is a work about an ambiguity—its disturbing ...
In the long and acclaimed career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, "The Girl on the Train" is the first movie based on a true story, an incident that scandalized France in July 2004. A young Parisian ...