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Sex & Nudity

  • A teenage boy makes advance on a girl and touches her breast while kissing her insisting to has sex with him but she refuses.
  • A teenage boy seems to has a crush on his mother. At the end while they both are drunk and in bed he begins to kiss her. Sex is implied but not shown.
  • A married woman is cheating on her husband with a younger man. She goes with him and her son becomes notice of that.
  • Multiple scenes of bare breasts.
  • Several scenes of male rear nudity.
  • One scene where a boy is watching his mother in the bath; her back and buttocks are seen.
  • Brief frontal male nudity in a clinical setting. The view of the boys penis is at a distance so the scene is not graphic.
  • Multiple scenes of teens making out and groping each other.
  • Two teenage boys tease their 15 year old brother, which leads to taking his shirt off. Then, the two boys argue on the size of their penises, and take their penises out in front of their brother's face - no nudity, but their brother is seen looking at both of them. Then they start measuring it with a ruler before getting caught by the maid.
  • Both adults and teens discuss sex and sexuality in a casual manner.
  • A teen boy and girl are seen lying in bed together (implied nudity) suggesting that they had spent the night together having sex.

Violence & Gore

  • Slaps, shoving, pinching, punching and wrestling. No one appears seriously hurt.

Profanity

  • All cursing is done in French or Italian and little of it is subtitled.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drugs: None
  • Teenagers smoke and drink. Several characters are shown drunk.
  • Every character is shown smoking cigarettes.
  • The majority of characters are teenagers and they are shown frequently drinking wine/spirits and ordering the drinks in restaurants and bars
  • The legal purchasing age in France was raised from 16 to 18 in 2009. Traditionally, IDs are rarely asked for as proof of age. France does not have a legally spelled out consumption age, so families, both at home and in public restaurants will all drink together. Kids over a certain age will be served wine at dinner like everyone else at the table, unless a parent objects. At NYE celebrations and other special occasions, kids will drink champagne along with the adults. Selling alcohol to a minor (ie under 18 since 2009) is illegal and the proprietor can be fined. This movie is from 1971 when 16 was the standard.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Sex & Nudity

  • A 15 year old boy is set up with a prostitute by his brothers, they are shown undressing and talking about sex, the boy walks around in his underwear but his erection can be seen in the fabric. The prostitute walks around topless and her breasts are shown. While haveing sex with her, his brothers come into the room and grab him by the ankles and pull him off of her.
  • It is suggested (heavily) that the main character and his mother had sex, it was not shown however there is a cut from an exagerated kissing scene to an awkward converstion suggesting sex had occured.

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