15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.
Acting
Gouverneur's physicality captures teenage performance perfectly.
Cinematography
Alpine beauty weaponized against the viewer's comfort.
Direction
Tissot refuses easy moralizing, which is the point.
Director
Rodolphe Tissot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film sparked debate in France about the 'Lolita complex' in their cinema tradition, directly confronting a cultural blind spot.
Tissot cast an 18-year-old but demanded she not read the script's sexual scenes beforehand, preserving genuine shock in her reactions.
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