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Jeune & Jolie

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Jeune & Jolie

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Spending the summer on the beach with her wealthy family, teenager Isabelle loses her virginity to a holidaying German youth...and then sees her life slipping into prostitution as she hires herself out to older men, who find her services advertised on the internet for three hundreds euros. Director François Ozon uses the seasons to non-judgementally chronicle the youngsters transition from young innocent to seasoned sex worker. French erotic drama starring Marine Vacth and Géraldine Pailhas

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Damon Wise

If you have even a passing interest in contemporary French cinema, the chances are you'll have seen at least one film by François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women, Potiche), and it's a mark of his diversity that you could easily have seen two without realising. However, Jeune & Jolie is one of his middling works, the story of a 17-year-old Parisian girl, Isabelle (Marine Vacth), who sees a lucrative future in prostitution after being propositioned by a much older man outside school. Despite such ostensibly dark subject matter, the film keeps a non-judgemental distance, portraying Isabelle as an otherwise sensible middle-class girl with a taste for designer clothes. It is only when one of her regular clients - by no means a monster - dies during one of their illicit sessions that reality intrudes, but, again, Ozon refuses to take the moral high ground. The film documents the fallout with a refreshing sense of realism, but, while she is undoubtedly both young and beautiful, Vacth lacks empathy as a lead and the songs on the soundtrack - usually so great in Ozon's film - are disappointingly literal.

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Cast

rolenameIsabelleMarine VacthSylvieGéraldine PailhasPatrickFrédéric PierrotAliceCharlotte RamplingGeorgesJohan LeysenVictorFantin RavatVéroNathalie RichardPeterDjédjé Apali

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rolenameDirectorFrançois Ozon

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Theatrical distributor

Lionsgate

Released on

2013-11-29

Languages

German | French

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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