My Little Princess

2011 [FRENCH]

Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2085 2.1K

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Plot summary

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.

Director

Eva Ionesco Photo
Eva Ionesco

Top cast

Déborah Révy Photo
Déborah Révy as Nadia
Isabelle Huppert Photo
Isabelle Huppert as Hanah Giurgiu
Pauline Serieys Photo
Pauline Serieys as Suzanne
Nicolas Maury Photo
Nicolas Maury as Louis
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942.45 MB
1280*534
French 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 8
1.71 GB
1916*800
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 7 / 10

Art imitates Life, with a touch of Fassbinder...

"My Little Princess", Eva Ionesco's debut film explores the intense relationship between mother & daughter. Although, initially it may sound like a cinematic cliché to go over family dynamics once again, the film offers us a double controversy: The first being the relationship itself and the fact that the mother (played beautifully by Isabelle Huppert) takes erotic/pornographic photos of her under-aged daughter(Anamaria Vartolomei) and sells them. The second being that these very events happened in the director's actual life and caused a huge spark in France. The narration explores how these dynamics came to be about and their ultimate unraveling. Aesthetically, the film borrows a lot from R.W Fassbinder, particularly his BDR trilogy and his collaboration with Hanna Schygulla. Huppert's appearance and beautiful designer gowns (most notably Yves Saint-Laurent) pays homage to the 30s and several references have been made to Marlene Dietrich. The problematic of the working woman struggling to survive in a ruthless world has been explored by the German director back then and is repeated by Ionesco today, with emphasis on child abuse. Also, Huppert's acting never disappoints but Vartolomei was surprisingly brilliant. Her very young age and the salacious material of the text did not deter this great talent from the intense performance she gave. The latter is indeed a gentle reminder of Brook Shields' days in "Pretty Baby" & "The Blue Lagoon". To sum up, French films are getting more and more controversial, although I had originally expected a gem out of the "New French Extremity" to be included in the Semaine De La Critique De Cannes, this interesting piece of work is satisfying enough.
Reviewed by 7 / 10

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