La Petite Fille Qui Aimait Trop les Allumettes (2017)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 112 minuten
Alternative title: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Simon Lavoie
Stars: Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne
IMDb score:
6,9 (532)
Releasedate: 11 September 2017
La Petite Fille Qui Aimait Trop les Allumettes plot
The province of Quebec, sometime in the 1930s. The Soissons family lives in isolation, both physically and psychologically. The father is an alcoholic and as soon as he is addicted, he drags his children to a homemade chapel to hold disjointed services. One day he suddenly dies and his children have to move on without any sense of social manners.
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Fransman
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Dark, not to say dirty, film about a father who lives isolated in a remote country house in the woods with his two sons and chases curious onlookers from the village from his property with his rifle. When he suddenly dies, the two children are left to their own devices. But they don't trust each other and have no idea what to do next. The mother died years ago and her death is surrounded by mysteries. The boys each try to unravel 'the secret' in their own way.
Nice and scary, you think. Well, that's disappointing. There's plenty happening already. The Americans would say 'Disturbing stuff', and even though it is a (French) Canadian film, it still exudes a North American atmosphere. In the distance, the film has some similarities with a film like 'Dogtooth' by Yorgos Lanthimos or with the work of Gaspar Noé. The two brothers' search for how to survive and the discoveries they make in the process is quite impressive. Only towards the end does some light come into the darkness and does it become clear what happened in the past and what the title refers to. This film is not a simple nonsense.
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