Ava is the title character of a French coming of age / love story. It's filmed in summer in southwest France, and the scenery is great. It's competently filmed, and the acting is decent. The problem I have is with the story: too many implausible and/or over-the-top events. The film feels as though it was made by an inexperienced, young French woman for young French women. And worse, the love story was pretty weak: one felt her love for him but not his love for her. The impending blindness came to feel like an unnecessary story line gimmick, created more so to add drama than something necessary to the story itself. An unexceptional French drama.
Review of Ava
