[3] Set deep in the French countryside just before the start of World War II, it shows the idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous Auvergne where a family from Paris has come to holiday with relatives.

In the summer of 1939, Jean, a butcher in Paris, takes his family to a small town near Avignon for a stay with his widowed mother.

[5] In 2023, Carlotta Films sold the distribution rights to Japan, who released The Adolescent, Lumière and Lillian Gish under an umbrella name Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker.

Moreau suggests that great emotional hurt could befall the little girl, but in the end Signoret is allowed to weave a wonderfully fanciful spell that preserves the child's romantic innocence for one summer more.

[8]Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote Moreau presents a young girl's coming-of-age "with none of the dewy lasciviousness to which so many male directors are prone.