Amélie, a 20-year-old girl, loses both her job as a waitress and her home. Without money, she tries to survive on the streets.
Acting
Florence Loiret Caille's raw, unsentimental breakout performance.
Direction
Zonca's vérité style predates his acclaimed 'La Vie Rêvée des Anges'.
Director
Erick Zonca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zonca made this before his 1998 breakthrough 'The Dreamlife of Angels,' establishing his signature focus on working-class women in freefall.
Part of a brutal '90s French wave including 'La Haine' and 'Rosetta'—cinema that refused to look away from social collapse.
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