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Teenage Babylon presents the aftermath of three teenage suicides through the medium of what purports to be 1960s vintage black and white police file footage. The film's haunting images, evoking teenage love gone wrong, are counterpointed by a series of saccharine torch songs, celebrating falling in love and the end of a masquerade. Through a kind of bathetic synthesis, the dialectic of Eros and Thanatos, love and death, is consummated in the 'morgue' of the forensic archive.
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- Director
- Graeme Wood
- Written by
- Graeme Wood
- Origin country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 14m
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- Teenage Babylon
- TMDB
- 7.0/10 (4 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.3/10 (59 votes)
Released January 1, 1989
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