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1979 film

To Be Sixteen

French	Avoir 16 ans

Directed by	Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Written by	Jean Pierre Lefebvre Claude Paquette
Produced by	Marguerite Duparc
Starring	Yves Benoît Aubert Pallascio Gilles Renaud
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Edited by	Marguerite Duparc
Music by	Gilles Bellemare Alain Lamontagne Paul Piché
Production company	Cinak
Release date	May 1979 (1979-05) (Cannes)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

To Be Sixteen (French: Avoir 16 ans) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1979. The film stars Yves Benoît as Louis, a 16-year-old high school student who is sent to a mental institution by his father (Aubert Pallascio) to punish him for his rebelliousness, and is under the care of a psychiatrist (Gilles Renaud).

The film's cast also includes Marthe Choquette, Michèle Magny, Éric Beauséjour, Frédérique Collin, Pierre Curzi, Lise L'Heureux and Jean Marchand.

The film premiered in the Directors Fortnight stream at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, and was later screened in the Critics Choice program at the 1979 Festival of Festivals.

References

Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 219.
^ "Avoir 16 ans (To Be Sixteen)". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
Jay Scott, "Lefebvre's deceptive simplicity". The Globe and Mail, May 22, 1982.
Jay Scott, "Festival of Festivals a film bonanza". The Globe and Mail, September 1, 1979.

External links

To Be Sixteen at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Feature films	The Revolutionary (1965) Don't Let It Kill You (1967) Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (1968) My Friend Pierrette (1969) Straight to the Heart (1969) The House of Light (1969) Q-Bec My Love (1970) Those Damned Savages (1971) My Eye (1971) Ultimatum (1973) The Last Betrothal (1973) Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973) Confidences of the Night (1975) The Man from the Movies (1976) The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977) To Be Sixteen (1979) Wild Flowers (1982) To the Rhythm of My Heart (1983) Le jour S... (1984) Alfred Laliberté sculpteur (1987) The Box of Sun (1988) The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel (1991) Now or Never (1998) Mon ami Michel (2004) La Route des cieux (2010)
Short films	L'homoman (1964) Ensemble (1988) Sentiers secrets (1988) Laubach Literacy of Canada: The Changing Workplace (1989) Atelier altitude (1993) Il était une fois Sabrina et Manu (1994) L'âge des images (1994–1995) H comme hasard (1999) See You in Toronto (2000)

Films directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Feature films

The Revolutionary (1965)
Don't Let It Kill You (1967)
Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (1968)
My Friend Pierrette (1969)
Straight to the Heart (1969)
The House of Light (1969)
Q-Bec My Love (1970)
Those Damned Savages (1971)
My Eye (1971)
Ultimatum (1973)
The Last Betrothal (1973)
Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)
Confidences of the Night (1975)
The Man from the Movies (1976)
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977)
To Be Sixteen (1979)
Wild Flowers (1982)
To the Rhythm of My Heart (1983)
Le jour S... (1984)
Alfred Laliberté sculpteur (1987)
The Box of Sun (1988)
The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel (1991)
Now or Never (1998)
Mon ami Michel (2004)
La Route des cieux (2010)

Short films

L'homoman (1964)
Ensemble (1988)
Sentiers secrets (1988)
Laubach Literacy of Canada: The Changing Workplace (1989)
Atelier altitude (1993)
Il était une fois Sabrina et Manu (1994)
L'âge des images (1994–1995)
H comme hasard (1999)
See You in Toronto (2000)

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