Peppermint Soda (Blu-ray) <small>by Tyler Foster</small><hr /> It's the beginning of another school year at the strict girls' school Anne (Eleonore Klarwein) and her older sister Frederique (Odile Michel) attend, and change is in the air. Frederique has her eyes set on boys, all prepared to grow up, whereas Anne and her friends are still just sharing gossip about them. For what seems like the first time, the two girls are finding their tastes and paths diverging, adding an air of tension to their relationship. Their mother (Anouk Ferjac) frets about their slipping grades, which are exacerbated by abusive, ineffective, and oblivious teachers, which neither of the girls think they can explain to her honestly. In the background, there are the lingering wounds from mom's divorce from their fussy, half-absent father (Michel Puterflam), who spoils them but doesn't seem to listen to them, and on a larger scale, the aftershocks of the French-Algerian war. Politics is t...Read the entire review »