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Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
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jmovies
Let's Call It A Bromance
Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:22 pm Posts: 12333
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Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
Young & BeautifulQuote: Young & Beautiful (French: Jeune & Jolie) is a 2013 independent French drama film directed by François Ozon and produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer. The film stars Marine Vacth in the leading role of Isabelle, a teenage prostitute, and features supporting performances by Charlotte Rampling, Géraldine Pailhas, and Frédéric Pierrot. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and received praise from the film critics. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:51 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Jeune et Jolie [Jeune & Jolie]
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:06 pm |
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jmovies
Let's Call It A Bromance
Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:22 pm Posts: 12333
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Re: Jeune et Jolie [Jeune & Jolie]
what?
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Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:24 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Jeune et Jolie [Jeune & Jolie]
the english title is not "jeune & jolie"
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Jeune et Jolie [Jeune & Jolie]
Magnus wrote: Teenage prostitution? Shit....I need to see this film ASAP. not enough penis, you won't enjoy it
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
A type of restrained, sad 21st-century version of Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour. The film, directed by the rater prolific François Ozon (Swimming Pool), is divided into four seasonal chapters. In the summer, 17-year-old heroine Isabelle loses her virginity while at the seaside with her family. In the fall, she has begun a double life as a prostitute. She studies in the morning, encounters (often much older) johns at hotels in the afternoon, and returns to her quiet domestic existence at night. In the winter, her duplicity is revealed, and she is still contending with the numerous consequences come springtime. The film neither glamorizes nor overtly criticizes Isabelle's actions nor is it particularly interested in diving into her fantasies and worldview. It stays at a relative distance, inviting fresh-faced and promising star Marine Vacth to flash hints of confusion, desire, and rage beneath Isabelle's default icy detachment. (The first sex scene is presented as out-of-body experience, with a ghostly image of Isabelle observing as her corporal self lies beneath a groaning, thrusting German lad.) The film then is not extremely poignant, but it is riveting in its own crisp and subdued way. It is hard to turn away from the characters and their evolving dynamics. For instance, Isabelle's mother, after learning her daughter's secret, bemoans and marvels at the fact she is now a tad disgusted by her own child. There are other nice touches, too, including well-placed songs by pop chanteuse Françoise Hardy throughout and, late in the film, a memorable cameo by Charlotte Rampling.
B+
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Re: Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
C+
Marine Vacth is terrific and the restrained direction is very good, but it left me completely cold. I know, showing us a very detached, distant perspective was exactly what the film wanted, but that simply didn't work for me. I could admire parts of it, but I never really got into the film or into its character. I didn't care.
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 34876 Location: Minnesota
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Re: Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
A fascinating film. Marine Vacth is great and very beautiful. The cinematography was really good as well. I personally didn't want it to end.
8/10 (A-)
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