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      A Colony

      2018 1h 42m Drama List
      90% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 67% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A timid 12-year-old girl is about to leave her native countryside to begin high school. She becomes lost in the hostile environment, and along the way, she encounters a young indigenous outsider who helps her embrace herself. Read More Read Less

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      Cath Clarke Guardian What an impressive debut. Rated: 3/5 Mar 8, 2021 Full Review Jessica Kiang Variety Gains in confidence and momentum as it progresses, leaving us eager to see where its young director will go now that the training wheels are off and the road up ahead is open. May 10, 2019 Full Review Deborah Young Hollywood Reporter A convincing young cast breathes life into an anxious age. Feb 27, 2019 Full Review Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) Set in Quebec, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles's drama notes Canada's treatment of its indigenous peoples, but in essence the story is a universal one... Rated: 3/5 Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Emily Maskell WeLoveCinema an exceptional, gently blazing coming-of-age portrait defined by a sincere kind of tenderness. Mar 17, 2021 Full Review Alex Hudson Exclaim! When it comes to exploring sensitive issues like reconciliation and slut-shaming, the harsh language of teenage bullies isn't always the best way to get the point across. Rated: 6/10 Jul 18, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member This is a coming-of-age story about a girl named Mylia, and her bright, exuberant, and uninhibited younger sister Camille, and their parents, as they move to a rural part of the Quebec countryside outside of Montréal. It's much less flashy and in-your-face than other coming-of-age stories, and also has a somewhat subtle cultural undertone and a societal message which others may lack. It really is about society, like the film implies early on. Mylia gets caught between wanting to be accepted by the in-crowd, led by a girl named Jacinthe, which exposes her to a world of spiked drinks, premature and forced sexualization, and being inauthentic with herself, and in contrast, partaking in a more healthy relationship and life path with the blunt, yet very percieving, knowing, and understanding First Nations boy she sits next to in History class, Jimmy. Mylia wrestles with this new environment, these opposing forces and her growing feelings of friendship mixed with love and fondness for Jimmy, a boy from a Native American family who will never have any standing with the school leaders. His perceptiveness and gentle ways with little Camille are in sharp contrast to his outbursts of anger at the casual racism of his peers, which is painfully reflected in the history books they read in school. But he recognizes the introverted Mylia as a kindred spirit when he asks her if she was one of the kids who "colored outside the lines." In the conclusion of the film, he's also hinted to have appeared to become a more natural and healthy outlet for a sexual/romantic awakening for Mylia, rather than the one in Jacinthe's world which did not seem as natural or healthy. Eventually, she follows that more earnest relationship she shares with Jimmy and her sister Camille, and becomes a more confident individual, set to become a better adult. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A timid 12-year-old girl is about to leave her native countryside to begin high school. She becomes lost in the hostile environment, and along the way, she encounters a young indigenous outsider who helps her embrace herself.
      Director
      Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
      Screenwriter
      Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
      Production Co
      Colonelle Films
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Runtime
      1h 42m