For his 21st feature film , director André Téchiné returned to the theme of adolescent life more than twenty years after his success with '' Wild Reeds '' ( 1994 ) . The script was written by Téchiné in collaboration with Céline Sciamma , director of three coming-of-age films : '' Water Lilies '' ( 2007 ) , '' Tomboy '' ( 2011 ) and '' Girlhood '' ( 2014 ) . About their collaboration , Téchiné explained : " I had a lot of admiration for what she 's brought to French film , the innovative side of her work on adolescence , and I knew that my film would revolve around two teenagers . Moreover , I wanted the film to contain as little dialogue as possible , for it to be as physical as possible as you have these characters that are n't capable of putting their experience into words at all . In writing the screenplay , myself and Céline very much agreed on this , on creating something extremely minimalistic when it came to dialogue . " The film was produced by Fidélité Films . Shooting took place in around Bagnères-de-Luchon encompassing two different periods : a winter session , wrapped on 13 February 2015 , and several weeks in the summer ( from 25 June-31 July 2015 ) . Téchiné choose to set the story in Southwest France in the Hautes-Pyrénées , with its mountainous landscapes , a region of the country rarely depicted in films . Téchiné commented : " I thought that would visually work very well . It also struck me that these mountains , with their evil charm and enchanting quality , seem to belong to a magical world like that of adolescence , which is lost when you enter the altogether more pragmatic adult world " The film premiered in competition at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival . It garnered a widespread critical acclaim . It holds a positive rating of 94 % on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews
66th Berlin International Film Festival
66th Berlin International Film Festival
Being 17