The death of a Parisian girl’s mother drives the numbed teen to explore her dark side in first-time French helmer Rebecca Zlotowski‘s uneven drama “Belle epine.” Unfolding with the disjointed logic of ...
The feature debut of writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski, Belle Épine focuses on the coming of age story of an angry girl who wields sex like a weapon. Léa Seydoux plays Prudence Friedman, a Jewish teen ...
It’s been two weeks since her mother died, and Prudence is home alone: her father is overseas on business, and her older sister, stricken with grief, has absented herself. Sixteen going on seventeen, ...
Paris in the 1980s. 17-year-old Prudence Friedmann has just lost her mother. Left to her own devices in the family apartment, she enjoys this sudden freedom along with her new friend Marilyne. They ...
The death of a Parisian girl’s mother drives the numbed teen to explore her dark side in first-time French helmer Rebecca Zlotowski‘s uneven drama “Belle epine.” Unfolding with the disjointed logic of ...
France has produced so many naturalistic dramas about teenage delinquents that the films practically constitute their own genre. This 2010 debut film by Rebecca Zlotowski may not be a genuine ...
The work of Maurice Pialat and the Dardenne Brothers are among the more obvious influences that can be felt in writer Rebecca Zlotowski’s directorial debut. Belle Epine is a closely observed portrait ...
Paris in the 1980s. 17-year-old Prudence Friedmann has just lost her mother. Left to her own devices in the family apartment, she enjoys this sudden freedom along with her new friend Marilyne. They ...