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A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.8K

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Despite having no prior experience and getting cast at the last moment, filming this movie was fine for Eléonore Klarwein, who was only 13. She nevertheless had issues with three scenes: "First, the one where I have my period, because I don't have it in reality and because it touches on the intimate. Then, the one where I take a bath with my sister who puts her toes in my mouth. Disgusting. On top of that, I'm topless in the bathtub and it's embarrassing. Finally, the one where my sister makes me fall from a sofa: there, I hurt myself" she recalled.

Goofs
The film is set during the 1963-64 school year however a couple of elements are thus anachronistic: First, in early 1964 the history teacher mentions the Charonne subway massacre as having happened the previous year in February when it happened in February 1962 (although this could be seen as the character making the mistake of not taking the New Year into account). Second, an announcement that the price postal stamps is going up from 25 to 30 centimes can be heard on the radio, but this price hike did not occur until 1965.

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: Love and Bullets/Time After Time/Life of Brian/The Onion Field/Peppermint Soda (1979)

Soundtracks
Summer Holiday
Written by Bruce Welch & Brian Bennett
Performed by Cliff Richard & The Shadows

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Featured review

Slow-Moving but Well-Remembered Realistic Slice of Life

The director's Entre Nous is one of my favorite movies. I had never seen Peppermint Soda, which I understood was equally autobiographical, so rented it. It's quite different in style from Entre Nous - covers far less time, and the "events" in the two sisters' lives are all quite "micro".

Yet it's also true that I cannot think of anything that portrays adolescence as it really was (for boys as well as girls) as well as this movie. Kurys has a truly remarkable feel for the extent to which music on the radio was a back-drop, or the way that a long-running dispute with a parent over clothing (in this case, nylons) can punctuate daily life, or the way friendships in school change over time. It's really a brilliant movie - not the most entertaining, but in its way, profound and well worth seeing. You will find yourself liking it more and more and more as the movie develops.