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Movies 101

"Kneecap" & "Dìdi"

Published August 23, 2024 at 8:30 PM PDT
From left: Mo Chara, DJ Próvai, and Móglaí Bap in Kneecap (2024); Izaac Wang in Dìdi (2024).
From left: Mo Chara, DJ Próvai, and Móglaí Bap in Kneecap (2024); Izaac Wang in Dìdi (2024).

When we use the term "coming of age," it can mean a number of different things, from ties to character development to—literally—chronology. On this week's show Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that, each in its own way, deals with some aspect of characters coming of age. The first is titled, simply, Kneecap and the second is titled the equally succinct Dìdi.

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