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Directed by Lorraine Lévy Music by Sébastien Souchois Box office 1.4 million USD Screenplay Lorraine Levy | 6.4/10 IMDb Written by Lorraine Lévy Initial release 6 October 2004 Budget 3.8 million USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Hélène Delale
Bruno Pésery Based on La Première fois que j'ai eu seize ans
by Susie Morgenstern Starring Marilou Berry
Catherine Jacob
Serge Riaboukine Directors Lorraine Lévy, Lorraine Levy Cast Marilou Berry, Catherine Jacob, Serge Riaboukine, Myriam Moraly Similar Look at Me, Daddy or Mommy, Those Happy Days, Mes héros, Les Sœurs fâchées | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The First Time I Turned Twenty (original title: La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans) is a 2004 French comedy film directed and written by Lorraine Lévy.
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Plot
The action takes place in the early 1960s in Paris suburbs. Maurice Papon was Prefect of Paris Police for several years in the capital of a French company that has returned some racism in the minds.
Hannah (Marilou Berry) Goldman, Jewish, sixteen, two very pretty sisters and parents who love her. But she is not happy, assigned a very overweight it is ugly and deeply nourishes a terrible complex at the beauty of her sisters and that of his school friend. But Hannah has two great qualities her sisters admit to not having any of it and envy: she's smart, and she has a talent for music.
Wishing to make a career in music, she chose an instrument that looks like him ... bass, an instrument that is traditionally already a "human instrument". But his musical nonconformity does not stop there: she dreams of entering the jazz band at his high school. This year the jazz band needs a new bassist. But there has never been any women in jazz band established now for many years by the high school music teacher, and in addition this instrument is traditionally held by a man and a woman to claim this instrument in a training deeply shocked all high school boys.
Or in the selection contest it performs a benefit much higher than that of the only other competitor. She won the selection competition, to the delight of his family. But his four musicians comrades, viscerally misogynist, very attached to the male tradition of their training, and also singularly lacking all subtlety as any courtesy, will try everything to discourage it. Beginning immediately by reminding her that she is a woman and they do not want a woman in their training, they will harass morally to undermine gradually go one evening to plot a sinister Nazi symbol on his scores played during a concert, and what is even worse in his eyes ... they try to humiliate by attacking his instrument.
Struggling against the discouragement month after month and use all his intelligence and patience, stimulated by her uncle, she will eventually win the admiration of part of the group of four boys.