Sentences with phrase «about adolescence»

The wonderful thing about my adolescence that I take with me is not struggling with self - love and confidence, now in my 20's, onward and upward.

No movie about adolescence would be complete without some love interest.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

She wrote on social media: «Basically #GretaGerwig made a film about my adolescence in Sacramento & ditching it for college in NY.

A cinematic time capsule of sorts in that you're essentially watching a kid (both the character and actor playing him) grow up before your very eyes, the film has some really poignant things to say about adolescence, parenting and life in general.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

How does the design of students» high school experiences sometimes overlook what we have learned about adolescence as a developmental stage?

We are given no stories about Jesus from late childhood to his adulthood, but maybe this one does speak a bit about adolescence.

Visit our pages about Adolescence and Physical Development to find out more about sexuality, relationships and physical developemental tips.

«One thing we do know about adolescence is that it's a really great time to learn new things.

As hard as Hughes tries to be honest about adolescence's pains and parent - set pressures, he can't help but strike a few false notes.

The genius of Cody's script is that, for all the dialogue's affected cool, Jennifer's Body is an allegory about adolescence and female friendship.

One was the «Sixteen» project, in which students researched and produced a documentary about adolescence in different cultures around the world.

In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence — for example, that it is merely a stage of «immaturity» filled with often «crazy» behavior.

A cinematic time capsule of sorts in that you're essentially watching a kid (both the character and the actor playing him) grow up before your very eyes, the film has some very poignant things to say about adolescence, parenting and life in general.

Usually, in films about adolescence, you either get an emotionally upsetting cautionary tale or a group of horny high schoolers determined to lose their v - card by prom night.

His thoughts there echo what he writes in his book, Washed and Waiting, about his adolescence: «I came to realize I was experiencing what was usually called «homosexuality.»

And for better or worse — I would say worse — «teen movie» has come to connote in America a marginalized film ghetto where it's about adolescence, and the approach and the filmmaking is adolescent, immature, obsessed with fart jokes, whatever.

So while you may do more than just cringe at the violence on display here, their take on imaginary war games and all too real feelings of jealousy and bullying looks to be a welcome change of pace in a summer that I feel has been lacking in authentic films about adolescence (Kings Of Summer I am looking at you for shame, Short Term 12 you are exempt since you focus more on young adulthood)

The first segment also recalls his 1985 autobiographical film about his adolescence, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, the second recalls his 1998 Flowers of Shanghai (set in a ritzy Shanghai bordello during the 1880s), and the third his 2001 Millennium Mambo (a mainly contemporary film starring Shu Qi).

«Moonrise Kingdom» is an adolescent love story, not so much about love as it is about adolescence.

Not only that, the film triggers deep curiosities and fears, whether you can fully grasp what they are or not — about adolescence, about parenthood, about the supposed big, bad world.

Mike Petrilli talks with Laurence Steinberg about his new book on what science tells us about adolescence.

Christa and I joke about going to live in Australia because of that, but my hope is that the genre will just be about adolescence, period.