Word: doillon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ponette How can a child cope with her mother's violent death? Little Ponette (the amazing Victoire Thivisol) simply refuses to believe her mother is gone and waits desperately for her return. In a morbid year for films, Jacques Doillon's shattering French drama gets at a rare truth: surrendering to grief can give one a reason to live...
...flat-out devastation, see the French drama Ponette, Jacques Doillon's study of infant grief. From its poignant first image--of a four-year-old child (Victoire Thivisol) compulsively sucking her thumb, the only part of her forearm not in a cast after a crash that killed her mother--the film rarely leaves the wracked, haunted face of its fearless heroine. Many relatives think they are helping the girl: her aunt (Claire Nebout), who fills her with stories of God's craving for mommies; her young cousins, who try alternately teasing and cheering her; a boy at school who says...
...simple moper. The most sanctified movie masochist since Robert Bresson's Mouchette, she is on her own childhood Calvary, a quest to find her mother in this life or the next. The sight of a child digging furiously into cemetery dirt may upset some viewers; others will wonder if Doillon's manipulation of little Victoire's emotions doesn't come close to child abuse. But it is an amazing performance, or acting out, that expresses the human need for something to believe in. For Ponette it is her mother, an embracing vision of purity and security. The little girl needs...
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