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Dalva (2022)

Drama | 83 minutes
3,65 96 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 83 minuten

Alternative titles: Love according to Dalva / L'Amour selon Dalva / According to Dalva

Country: France / Belgium

Directed by: Emmanuelle Nicot

Stars: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti and Fanta Guirassy

IMDb score: 7,3 (2.318)

Releasedate: 22 March 2023

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Dalva plot

Although Dalva is twelve, she dresses, wears make-up and leads her life as if she were a grown woman. One night she is taken from her father's house. At first she is dumbfounded and furious at the situation. Later, she meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with tantrums. A new life seems to start for Dalva: a life appropriate to her age.

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Hannibal

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Zelda Samson, keep an eye out for that beautiful name, what a talent. Very nice film that left me with moist corners of my eyes at the end. I'm not ashamed of it. It does mean that the film touched me. The fact that the film won the IFFR Audience Award also shows that I am not the only one. Dalva is an annoying girl with obvious behavioral problems and yet you sympathize with her. Kind of like that daughter in The Whale, but done a lot better. Recommended! Just go see it as soon as it's in your cinema.

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hvdriel

  • 397 messages
  • 357 votes

A 12-year-old girl experiences her world as the reality, even when it is colored incestuously. When the outside world intervenes, she feels it as an offense to her own world. That outside world is the 'enemy' who roughly disrupts her world, which she herself experiences as loving and safe.

It is at this point that the film Dalva begins, and through the eyes of 12-year-old Dalva we experience the journey in which she is gently guided to shed her role as her father's 'wife' and develop into the young girl who fits at her age. This is a process of resistance, anger, temptation and patience, in which youth workers and peers at school and in the shelter play an important role.

A beautiful film that does not shy away from any confrontation and yet is not heavy and gloomy.

What a debut!

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De filosoof

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The film didn't really convince or grab me. Almost immediately the film makes it clear that the girl is being placed away from her father in a home because he abused her. Then we see the familiar issues - the girl is lonely, yearns for love but doesn't know the difference between love and sex because of her past - without doing many surprises with it. The film actually remains quite tame: not much happens, while you do get the impression that such a shot does more harm than good because she comes between criminals (she is lucky that there is no pimp in between) and the 'neat' outside world doesn't accept her easily now that her secret is out in the open. It's nice for her that it all works out - her roommate becomes her best friend, she is reunited with her mother who she eventually accepts in her father's place - but the film doesn't really make it clear or at least palpable which eventually puts her on the right track.

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