38/42
Scenario
Liane, 19, lives with her mother and sister in Fréjus in the south of France. Obsessed with aspirations for beauty and fame, she auditions for a reality show called "Miracle Island". Agatha Riedinger’s film does not reproduce romantic clichés. It is wonderfully authentic and, like life, unsweetened. Flawless acting and character development that is hard not to get attached to. An excellent script that consciously – with a maturity rarely seen among debutantes – avoids the trodden paths of drama. The director hints at them and then consistently leads us down another path. The reality of this film is far from the black and white simplifications that decades of patriarchal narrative have made us used to. The topic here is women. Beautiful cinema, incredible debut. 10/10.
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