The thorny subject of child abuse is depicted delicately and with great attention to detail in this affecting debut feature from young Belgian filmmaker Emanuelle Nicot. The film is part of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week programme and features an impressive turn by newcomer Zelda Samson. Les Miserables and The Eddy stars Alexis Manenti also stars alongside Marie Denarnaud and Jean-Louis Coulloc’h.
Twelve year old Dalva (Samson) lives alone with her father Jaques. One evening, the police storm into their home and arrest her father. Confused about the series of events that took place, a terrified Dalva demands to be reunited with the father she calls by his first name, but is instead given a physical exam and taken into care. Later the teenager befriends her feisty new roommate Samia who reluctantly agrees to teach her naive new friend about things she should have known by now.
Meanwhile Dalva...
Twelve year old Dalva (Samson) lives alone with her father Jaques. One evening, the police storm into their home and arrest her father. Confused about the series of events that took place, a terrified Dalva demands to be reunited with the father she calls by his first name, but is instead given a physical exam and taken into care. Later the teenager befriends her feisty new roommate Samia who reluctantly agrees to teach her naive new friend about things she should have known by now.
Meanwhile Dalva...
- 4/28/2023
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I'm scared... of being alone." 606 Distribution has revealed an official trailer for a lively French drama titled Love According to Dalva, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot. This originally premiered in the Critics Week sidebar section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival last year, and also Camerimage in Poland, and just won the Audience Award at the 2023 Rotterdam Film Festival. The film stars newcomer Zelda Samson as the young woman at the center of it all. Dalva is 12, but she dresses and lives like a woman. One day, she's taken away from her house. Dumbfounded at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva. The film also stars Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassi, Marie Denarnaud, & Jean-Louis Coulloc'h. There's still no US release set, but it'll open this April in the UK - which...
- 2/24/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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