Métamorphosées
has something of a soufflé.
It starts fast and strong.
Summer 1996. Miki is sent to a boarding school in the countryside.
A
“shabby old manor house, wedged between almost dead villages and disused train stations”
.
There, the teenager forgets his mother and makes friends.
He meets the beautiful Laura.
It's adolescence running in the grass, cigarettes smoking in the twilight, we have oily skin and long hair, we play football, we eat frozen pizza, we have violence like the heart , immense, we only think about doing it, and we do it, we are clumsy, we are obsessed, we are crude and cruel.
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Nothing is too bad when you're 14.
Even if, we can sense it, behind the smell of shampoo and fir needles there is another scent.
Miki is obsessed with the H-bomb. He no longer speaks to his mother.
He lies, he steals.
Is this a simple adolescent crisis?
Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen has beautiful words to translate this impulse of life and death through his brief chapters…
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