Director Claude Miller’s glorious coming-of-age movie is the French equivalent of MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952); four writers collaborated on this screenplay, but their handiwork is seamless. Raised by her overworked, impatient father, petulant 13-year-old Charlotte Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is always at odds with both her peers and her elders in her bourgeois community. A misfit by virtue of her tomboyish manner and lack of coordination, Charlotte graduates from grammar school with only two friends: her father's housekeeper, Leonie (Bernadette LaFont), who sees through Charlotte's flights of fancy, and a sickly younger child named Lulu (Julie Glenn), who tolerat...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins