Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Marine Vacth | ... | Isabelle | |
Géraldine Pailhas | ... | Sylvie | |
Frédéric Pierrot | ... | Patrick | |
Fantin Ravat | ... | Victor | |
Johan Leysen | ... | Georges Ferriere | |
Charlotte Rampling | ... | Alice | |
Nathalie Richard | ... | Véro | |
Djédjé Apali | ... | Peter (as Djedje Apali) | |
Lucas Prisor | ... | Felix | |
Laurent Delbecque | ... | Alex | |
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Jeanne Ruff | ... | Claire |
Carole Franck | ... | La policière | |
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Olivier Desautel | ... | Le policier |
Serge Hefez | ... | Le psychiatre | |
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Akéla Sari | ... | Mouna |
French teenager Isabelle is spending her summer holiday with her middle-class family in the south of France and decides to lose her virginity with German teenager Felix. Then she returns to Paris with her mother Sylvie, her stepfather Patrick and her younger brother Victor. Then Isabelle works as a call girl using the nickname Lea, meeting old men. She feels affection for her client Georges that is married with a daughter. When Georges dies from a heart attack while having sex with Isabelle in a hotel, she flees but the police investigate and identify her. The detectives in charge of the investigation disclose to Sylvie, who is devastated. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I really liked Ozon's last film (Dans la maison), but this one was a disappointment for me. It's hard not to see this story as a bunch of first world problems. But at its core, there are several good ideas and stories - and none of them gets the spotlight. The director goes from one subplot to the other, without really developing the characters, and seemingly has no idea what to do with this story. (And this makes the ending even worse.) But time to time, some settings or the actors' performance can tell us more than a thousand words.
Anyway, it's a thoughtful and basically a good movie, but it's too unfocused, unbalanced to go anywhere. If you haven't seen Dans la maison from Ozon, I'd recommend that one instead.