Synopsis
Tender Cousins (Tendres Cousines, 1980) is a French coming-of-age melodrama from David Hamilton, and you can watch online on iFILM. The summer of 1939 settles over a quiet country estate — the last carefree season before war reshapes everything. Fourteen-year-old Julien spends his holidays among relatives and falls for the first time.
His affection settles on his cousin Julia, though the boy on the edge of adolescence draws glances from the other women of the household too. Hamilton, far better known as a photographer, films all of it as pastoral idyll: hazy light, open fields, a long summer ache with the rumble of history just out of frame. Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte and Macha Méril head the cast. It suits viewers after slow European cinema about growing up and lost innocence rather than a plot full of turns. Stream Tender Cousins (1980) online on iFILM.
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