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La Boum

La Boum

Movie · 1980 · 15 people

Claude Pinoteau directed the 1980 French teen romantic comedy La Boum and wrote it with Danièle Thompson. Counted among the first youth films of its time, it was Sophie Marceau's screen debut and introduced her to a wide audience. A social phenomenon in France, it drew more than 4.3 million admissions there and about 15 million across Europe. Its English titles are The Party and Ready for Love, and in Turkey it is also known as Patlarsam Yanarsın.

The story centres on thirteen-year-old Vic Beretton (Sophie Marceau) as she enters adolescence. Her parents, François (Claude Brasseur) and Françoise (Brigitte Fossey), have a troubled marriage. Starting at a new high school, she looks forward to new friends and wild parties and feels her first love. When school anxieties merge with tension at home she looks for support and turns to her eccentric grandmother Poupette (Denise Grey). Alexandre Sterling, Bernard Giraudeau and Richard Bohringer also appear.

Vladimir Cosma composed the music, and the song "Reality", sung by Richard Sanderson, became inseparable from the film. Marcel Dassault was among the producers, and Gaumont produced. It opened in France on 17 December 1980 and in Germany on 11 December 1981. A sequel, La Boum 2, followed in 1982.

DirectorClaude Pinoteau
Production companyGaumont Yapımevi

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Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau Actor · 59 years old Robert Dalban Robert Dalban Actor · died at 83 Claude Brasseur Brigitte Fossey Denise Grey Alexandre Sterling Sheila O'Connor Bernard Giraudeau Frédéric de Pasquale Richard Bohringer Dominique Lavanant Jean-Pierre Castaldi Alain Beigel Alexandra Gonin Annie Savarin

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

La Boum became a social phenomenon in France, drawing over 4.3 million admissions there and about 15 million across Europe. Behind that success lies its place among the first youth films to take seriously the world of a thirteen-year-old girl entering adolescence. By setting her parents' troubled marriage beside her school worries, the film also looks at the changing family of the early 1980s. Her turning for support not to her parents but to her eccentric grandmother hints at a new kind of relationship between generations.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A good film to watch together with kids in their early teens. First love, a new school, parties and tension at home are all things teenagers can recognise themselves in. Because the parents' marriage problems are part of the story too, you may want to talk a little afterwards. It won't do much for young children; its real audience is teenagers and their parents.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Pinoteau and Danièle Thompson's script manages to portray a teenage girl's world without condescension; the tone is light but it takes her worries seriously. Being Sophie Marceau's debut adds to that freshness. Structurally, though, the film is split between two stories: Vic's school days and first love, and her parents' troubled marriage. Rather than enriching each other, the two strands at times simply take turns, and the narrative becomes episodic. Vladimir Cosma's music, and 'Reality' above all, carries almost single-handedly the emotional bond the script doesn't quite build, which is partly why the song became so tied to the film.

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