Young Mothers in the '70s (2016)
In the 1970s, the house of Plessis welcomes young pregnant minors. Even though these unborn children are the fruit of love or rape, in this institution, a single slogan: put these girls in the right way. But the day when the revolt rumbles, the mechanism fails... A story deliberately based on real events.
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Beautiful, moving film.
Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Ever since I started going to the movies, French films have captivated me: most often in black and white, unusual stories, cinematic language in a totally different format from North American cinema. Well, "Elles ... les filles du plessis" inserts in this context. The director Bénédicte Delmas surprises us with a cinematic language that goes from traditional to innovative (here I'm going to abstain because I'm writing this and leave it to the reader's intelligence to understand what I mean). The story, for us men, reflects the complexity of the female ego and makes us feel "guilty" for having been born with the capacity to generate another being just feeling pleasure and leaving the "bad part" to our partners ... And that's what most men do ... unfortunately ... few are those (Jean = Robi Schinasi) who are men with capital M, assume what they "did" and marry their partner (Marie France = Roxane Bret). I'm sure that if this movie was directed by a man , the result would not be the same. By the way: Delmas was not intimidated in directing one of the greatest actresses of the French cinema: Sandrine Bonnaire and with its intelligence, she conducts the film from the beginning until the end, without devolve to the fussiness. A highlight for Noémi Merlant whose initial appearance is very striking: looking hard, relentless, challenging before the Foyer Directrice: you do not intimidate me, nobody intimidates me ...In time: the film is based on real facts and deals with houses that receive pregnant adolescents, what until the present exists in France. The action takes place in the early 70's, where sexual liberation begins without young people being even told how the human body works.Here in Brazil, in the northeast, the fact is commonplace and unfortunately generates from the economic point of view, underdevelopment for that part of the country ...Returning to the subject: on a scale of 1 to 10, my vote is: 8 (great)