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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½

  girlboss canon material with Vanessa Paradis conning, smoking and thieving her way through 90s Paris; more genre leaning than usual for Becker even if the subdued crime elements take a backseat to melodrama, which is ultimately comforting for fans of mid-90s Euro exports and gen-x tales of wayward youth, offering a sort of francophile answer to My So Called Life (which was airing around the same time this was produced/released)

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  Review by Nick ★★★★½ 4

  Noirvember 2022 Lazy Quickie Reviews #64

  Well if nothing else, this is the first film to make me cry in a good long while.

  My first Jean Becker picture, but it won't be my last.

  I mentioned in a recent review how Robert Hossein liked to let his actors act without speaking. He'd have loved Vanessa Paradis, who here does more with her eyes than some actresses do with their entire careers.

  The script helps by giving her plenty to do, and even more to think about. It is rare for the lead in a movie to "steal" every scene they're in, and yet here we are.

  I am normally a Gérard Depardieu skeptic--I don't think he's bad by any…

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  Review by Xander Red Ramen ★★★

  Have to be honest, seeing the gun on the poster, I expected it to be used more (would be a bit silly if it did, though just shows that I had no idea what I was getting into). Overall I thought it was a pretty decent character study, though at times I found myself a bit disconnected. Could have benefited from a bit more 90s rave music in my opinion...

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  Review by Amouröser Danielle: L iving L ord Brett CS Sinclair 19-007 Jerome Deluxe Grayson Barsini K epple Brantley Bentley Gold, Mister SENSITIVE SOUL!, master of confusion, Befürworter von L absal und Schönheit ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Bastien Le Gouverneur ★★★½

  Le film en sois est tres cool mais putain qu’est-ce que je préfère que mon père soit parti chercher du lait que se sois Gerard Depardieu

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  Review by fetva ★★

  I really wonder where does this œdipe incestual Lolitaish obsession in French culture comes from ….

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  Review by Wade Sowers ★★★½

  When Marie (Vanessa Paradis) was a little girl her mother tried to smother her with a pillow, then, thinking she had been successful, killed herself with a shot to the head. Marie was then raised in an orphanage and has become a very manipulative young woman, rebellious, a person stealing from Paris stores using a book full of negative survival tactics that make her a difficult person with whom to sympathize. Once she comes of age and is released into the world, she embarks on her plan to take revenge against those she blames for her mother's death. The grandparents that refused to take them in when they had run out of money, the married guy who used her sexually…

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  Review by Lisa

  mmmmmhhh..... pas sûre.........
  J'ai bien aimé la première heure du film, mais ils m'ont perdu après la fausse scene de Noël.
  Pourquoi il faut toujours avoir de l'inceste ?

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  Review by Virgile_mbl ★★★½ 2

  Le film est bien mais Depardieu c’est de trop

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  Review by Kyle Roe ★★★★

  I’m a sucker for bad kids and scams which is really all the majority of this movie is. Always fun to see something new and watching a movie about exacting revenge on a deadbeat dad on Father’s Day seems kinda funny.

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  Review by Dustin Baker ★★★★

  A whirlwind of emotions while following Paradis find bearing in the rotten muck that is life, something many of us still can't find ourselves. While it swoops you up in the initial rush of cons, street hustling, and just getting by with close friends, which would be more than enough to propel the entire film, it eventually drops you like a shucked oyster onto the rainswept barren island of self-realization and emotional recognition while seeking acceptance or validation. And goddammit, it all works. Never easy, but always captivating.

  And I too would love to escape to such a seaside, remote location in self-isolation to drown myself in booze and self-regret so I ain't passing judgement on Depardieu at all.

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  Review by Slug ★★½

  What a fucked up Christmas present