Witnessing Téchiné carve his novelistic impulse down to its rawer, handheld essence... has been to watch a senior artist push through to the other side and find a new, exhilarating freshness. In no film is this more apparent than in Being 17, his latest, one of the most underrated and underseen of 2016. More than even the narratively expansive The Witnesses, it's here the Téchiné of the '90s meets the Téchiné of now, resulting in a kind of Wild Reeds for 2016. It is equally great.
Stephen Cone
November 18, 2016