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Being 17

2016 1h 56m
Drama
MOVIEVIBE Rating
6.8/10
389 reviews
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Being 17

Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.

"Adolescence is the only time when you learn something at all"

Top Billed Cast

Sandrine Kiberlain
Sandrine Kiberlain
Dr. Marianne Delille
Kacey Mottet Klein
Kacey Mottet Klein
Damien Delille
Corentin Fila
Corentin Fila
Thomas Chardoul
Alexis Loret
Alexis Loret
Nathan Delille
Jean Fornerod
Jean Fornerod
Jacques Chardoul
Mama Prassinos
Mama Prassinos
Christine Chardoul
Jean Corso
Jean Corso
Paulo
Rémi Garcia
Rémi Garcia
Le proviseur

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R Reno Verified TMDB Critic
2017-09-04

**Rivalry, that's where sometimes it all begins.**

I don't know why this film has not been watched by many. This is a good film, a good French gay film. Like many reviewers had already mentioned, this is not your typical gay theme. It would have been better if you had tried it without knowing what kind of story is this. Anyway, I mentioned it, but it is not a spoiler if you thought so. It would have landed at you in one way or the other while learning about the film.

It was more a drama than the romance. But everything has to have a nicer initiation. So, that's how the film characters ta...

K kinrich30 Verified TMDB Critic
2026-08-30

This was a fairly good movie and for the most part enjoyable. I think it lacked motivation for one of the characters though, he started out as a bully, but we never really learn why, he does give a slight answer for it later, but it just seems like there should have been more to it. The gay part of the story had a happy ending, but the non-gay part did not, so it's kind of a mixed reaction to this one....