Peppermint Soda (1977) on Netflix
After a summer on the coast with their father, Anne Weber, thirteen, and her sister Frédérique, fifteen, return to Paris and their mother. A strict all-girls school year begins.
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Plot summary
In September 1963 Anne Weber, thirteen, and her older sister Frédérique, fifteen, leave a summer on the coast with their divorced father and return to Paris and their mother, then to the Lycée Jules-Ferry, a strict all-girls school. Anne, introverted and an underachiever, is mocked by a teacher over a poor drawing and is angry that her mother will not buy her the stockings the other pupils wear. She wants her period to start and pretends to have cramps so as to seem grown up, while she and her friends compare how little they know about sex. She also reads the letters Frédérique exchanges with Marc and tells her schoolmates that Marc is her own boyfriend.
Cast
- Robert Rimbaudas M. Cazeau
- Marie Véronique Maurinas Muriel
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Peppermint Soda (1977)
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- Éléonore Klarwein, a first-time actress the same age as her character, said her hardest scenes were faking her first period, a topless bathtub scene with her sister, and a fall from a sofa in which she hurt herself.
- Peppermint Soda opens with a title card reading "For my sister—who still hasn't given me back my orange sweater," and is partly based on director Diane Kurys's own experiences.
- Peppermint Soda was Diane Kurys's directorial debut: she had no prior directing experience, and said that before the film she had never held a camera or even taken a still photograph.
- Diane Kurys got partial funding from a grant plus support from Gaumont, whose executives were skeptical until, as she recalled, they said, "Maybe she's crazy, but let's give her a try."
