Fame

Fame is Alan Parker's third feature film, released two years after the Oscar-winning Midnight Express and two years before Pink Floyd: The Wall, written by Roger Waters. This musical chronicles the formative years of a diverse cross-section of New York youth at an art college in the early 1980s.

From auditions to graduation, the different stages of their studies reflect the difficulty of training to become the actor, dancer, singer or musician they aspire to be.

These teenagers, struggling with difficult family lives, face some powerful and often painful experiences. In particular, the film focuses on the fate of a handful of characters who have been dealt a harsh hand by life.

The learning curve is steep and their future competitive and merciless.

Sylvain Portmann (CEC Unil)