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Amanda (2018)

Drama | 107 minutes
3,49 74 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 107 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Mikhaël Hers

Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multrier and Stacy Martin

IMDb score: 7,0 (3.917)

Releasedate: 21 November 2018

Amanda plot

In Paris, David earns his living doing various odd jobs. Lonely and dreamy as he is, he falls in love with neighbor Lena. His peaceful existence is brutally ended when his older sister dies during an attack, forcing him to take care of his seven-year-old cousin Amanda.

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Movsin

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While Vincent Lacoste is excellent in the role of the young man who goes through life somewhat superficially and suddenly has to learn what it means to bear responsibility, ultimately displaying a new outlook on life with interests and love for his family and surroundings, it is the young Isaure Multrier—certainly a few years older than the 6 or 7 indicated in the film—who is a focal point in this film and provides the emotions and poignancy. Beautiful casting and an equally beautiful performance.
Still a bit above average, this film which, in terms of style, reminded me a few times of the films of Claude Sautet (David's bike ride to the park where the attack takes place suggests impending doom and the way David recounts his sister's accident to an old friend by retracing his steps...)
The beginning is fresh and playful with unpretentious dialogue; then comes Amanda, and that is certainly worth it.
I also learned something: Elvis has left the building.

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Ferdydurke

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Paris looks like a sleepy little village, like a sort of Perigueux actually, and in London too (well, in the suburbs) it is wonderfully relaxed to pedal along the Thames and through the parks on a bike. The summer parks, just like in Paris at first, where people are pleasantly relaxing, lying lazily in the grass.

It is in that idyllic setting, sketched with a certain emphasis, that such an attack takes place. The curious thing is that, although the horror and the enormous impact on the lives of the injured and the bereaved are certainly not concealed, hardly any words are wasted on the attack itself or the reasons for it. The hardest nut to crack is the almost casual sigh, 'who would do such a thing?'

And nothing changes about that environment. Of course, there are soldiers in the streets, and the strict security measures, the checks—they are impossible to miss. But it is like an insignificant footnote, background noise in the struggle of those involved to get their turned-up lives, loves, and family relationships back on track.

The way that is brought to the forefront in this film, the restraint, the sober realism of it, with a minimum of melodrama: it lends the whole a remarkable tension, and, if you were to view it as a reaction to terror, strikingly enough, a certain... superiority.

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K. V.

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I watched this without any prior knowledge and had absolutely no idea what it was about. It was quite a big surprise when the incident took place.

The cast did a great job and came across convincingly. Very natural acting.

Other than that, the film looked fine and the story wasn't boring either.

Pleasantly surprised by this film.

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