22/41
Tale
Liane, 19, lives with her mother and sister in Fréjus in the south of France. Consumed by aspirations of beauty and stardom, she auditions for a reality show called ‘Miracle Island’. Agathe Riedinger’s film does not reproduce romantic clichés. It is wonderfully genuine and, like life, unsweetened. Impeccable acting and character development that is hard not to get attached to. An excellent script that consciously – with a maturity rarely seen among debuts – avoids the beaten paths of drama. The director suggests them and then constantly leads us down another path. The reality of this film is far from the black-and-white simplifications that decades of patriarchal narrative have accustomed us to. Here, the woman is the subject. Beautiful cinema, incredible debut. 10/10.
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