An entertaining comedy about growing up and based on a book of cartoons entitled "Memoirs of a Young Man." PETIT CON centers on Michel Choupon (Bernard Brieux), an 18-year-old living with his middle-class, right-wing family. He longs to break free and soon befriends a variety of
people--a bohemian couple who try to get him into bed, a bookwormish girl who has sexual fantasies about Joseph Stalin and Charles De Gaulle, and a pretty Arab girl. Brieux turns in a fine performance, convincingly portraying the awkward search for identity that accompanies adolescence. PETIT CON
(which translates as "Little Jerk") is the third adaptation of Gerard Lauzier's volumes of cart...
Released:
1985
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins