(the section between 1 min 30 secs and 3 mins is almost unbearable)
Mark Cousin's 'A Story of Childhood and Film' mapped out a kind of film 'essay', using personal footage of his nephew and niece as a way into his own favourite scenes of children in the movies. He draws from classics such as Kes, ET, Fanny and Alexander, Great Expectations and Meet Me in St Louis; but also from more unusual works – the 1974 Albanian film The Newest City in the World, for example; or the 1922 film Finlandia by Erkki Karu.
A key work for Cousins was Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank's deceptively simple 10-minute film from Latvia in which an extraordinary range of emotions play over a boy's face...incredible.
