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The Consolation

Original title: La consolation
  • TV Movie
  • 20172017
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 29m
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6.1/10
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Philip Schurer and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
BiographyDrama
Suffering dizziness and fainting spells, TV presenter Flavie consults a psychiatrist. He suggests she's bottling up a traumatic event from her past and proposes they look through childhood p... Read allSuffering dizziness and fainting spells, TV presenter Flavie consults a psychiatrist. He suggests she's bottling up a traumatic event from her past and proposes they look through childhood photos. A picture brings back repressed memories.Suffering dizziness and fainting spells, TV presenter Flavie consults a psychiatrist. He suggests she's bottling up a traumatic event from her past and proposes they look through childhood photos. A picture brings back repressed memories.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
150
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    • Magaly Richard-Serrano
    • Flavie Flament(book)
    • Magaly Richard-Serrano
  • Stars
    • Léa Drucker
    • Lou Gable
    • Philip Schurer
    • Magaly Richard-Serrano
    • Flavie Flament(book)
    • Magaly Richard-Serrano
  • Stars
    • Léa Drucker
    • Lou Gable
    • Philip Schurer
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    • 1User review
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    Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Léa Drucker and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Émilie Dequenne in The Consolation (2017)
    Philip Schurer and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Philip Schurer and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Léa Drucker and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Émilie Dequenne in The Consolation (2017)
    Léa Drucker in The Consolation (2017)
    Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)
    Léa Drucker in The Consolation (2017)
    Léa Drucker and Lou Gable in The Consolation (2017)

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    Léa Drucker
    Léa Drucker
    • Gigi
    Lou Gable
    • Flavie - Adolescente
    Philip Schurer
    Philip Schurer
    • David Hamilton
    Xavier Mathieu
    • Pierrot
    Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne
    • Flavie - Adulte
    Patrick Préjean
    • Grand-Père
    Hervé Pierre
    Hervé Pierre
    • Le Psy
    Hugo Chalan-Marchio
    • Hari
    Céleste Aminot
    • Christelle
    Baptiste Porcheron
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    Enzo Castaldi
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    Julie Meunier
    • Vendeuse
    Chantal Ravalec
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    Pauline Blais
    • Tante Isabelle
    Caroline Forestier
    • Mère Hari
    François Briault
    • Bertrand
    Kévin Roze
    • Rabatteur
    Jeff Bigot
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      • Magaly Richard-Serrano
      • Flavie Flament(book)
      • Magaly Richard-Serrano
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      Upon its initial airing in France, the film was immediately followed by a debate about child sexual abuse, moderated by Carole Gaessler, and featuring Flavie Flament, the subject and co-writer of the film.

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    Flavia Flament vs. David Hamiliton
    This French TV movie is basically the account of the juvenile rape/sexual assault TV personality Flavia Flament suffered (or allegedly suffered) at the hands of pervy British photographer/filmmaker David Hamilton. There is no reason to doubt Flament's story, although Hamilton's suicide two weeks after she made her accusation public could be interpreted just as easily as guilt or innocence. I certainly don't want to take away from Flament's Gallic "me-too" moment here or cast aspersions on the feminist statement this movie makes. But David Hamilton does make for a pretty easy target. This is a guy who basically made a career out of filming older teenage and young adult women in various stages of undress, and photographing even younger female models like Eva Ionesco (who recently directed a similar movie called "MY little Princess", the villain there being her own mother). It's a little TOO easy to portray him today as a pedophile and a rapist. I take Flament's story at face value, but Hamilton's work and reputation could just as easily render him an unfair target of publicity-seeking opportunists as it could be used to substantiate his guilt.

    The movie does make the somewhat unfortunate choice of a wrap-around story where the adult Flament (Emily DeQuenne) suffers fainting spells and goes to a female psychiatrist to recover memories of the sexual assault she suffered at 13. While I'm sure this is perfectly true, memories "recovered" by psychiatrists are probably the most suspect when it comes to false accusations of abuse. Psychiatrists have been known plant false memories of abuse in children and distorted memories of teenagers and adults. Regardless, cinematically, the flashback scenes with the young Flavia (Lou Gable) on the beach with her mother and sister where she was "discovered" and photographed by the already-famous photographer are far more compelling than the scenes of the adult Flavia talking to her psychiatist. And going back and forth between the present or past in such a short movie also tends to detract from this being a PERSONAL account (the strength of French films like "My Little Princess") because the movie simply doesn't spend enough time to develop a strong relationship with either the adult or the adolescent Flament (although Lou Gable fares better than Emilie Dequenne). The result is perhaps too much of a tilt from personal story to lurid sensationalism.

    David Hamilton himself is at least not portrayed as an obvious mustache-twirling villain (and there have not been numerous accusations made against him, unlike with someone like Harvey Weinstein). It is a little shocking that Flavia's mother thinks nothing of leaving her adolescent daughter alone in the company of a nude middle age man (Hamilton apparently did his photography in the nude), even if he is a famous photographer and his wife was around. It's hard to imagine even in 1980's France, people were that naive or blase.

    This movie is Flament's personal story and it deserves to be taken at face value, but I'm personally wary of this present-day trend of portraying the teenage girls of the past (and apparently their mothers) as impossibly naive victims and all men back then as nothing but predatory rapists. I'd at least recommend also watching Catherine Breillat's "36 Fillette", a similar film made back in the 80's-era setting of this film, which gives a different, and in my experience more believable, portrayal of the sexual mores of this era.
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    • lazarillo
    • Apr 7, 2018

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      • November 7, 2017 (France)
      • France
      • Image et Compagnie (France)
      • Lagardère Studios Distribution (France)
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      • Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France
    • Production companies
      • Image et Compagnie
      • France Télévisions
      • TV5MONDE
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
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