Lou!

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Lou!

2014

1h 44m

Comedy

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Preteen Lou lives alone with her ridiculously immature mother, Emma, and spends her days playing with a cat, dining at a Chinese restaurant, and spying on her dreamy neighbor Tristan, documenting his every move -- until a new neighbor arrives.

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

For anyone who's not a Francophone tween girl, the film likely will be a tedious, precious exercise in indulgence.

Apr 23, 2015

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Patrick Peters

Empire Magazine

Quirky and kitsch but this tween flick doesn't quite hang together.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 13, 2015

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It's a commercial French picture of the kind that generally doesn't cross the Channel well: a bit DayGlo, a bit cutesy, a bit fey.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 12, 2015

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Tracy Moore

Common Sense Media

Quirky French subtitled film about growing up has profanity.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 3, 2015

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Stefan Pape

HeyUGuys

By the time Lou! has finished you feel like you've downed an entire packet of popping candy and washed it down with cherryade.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 13, 2015

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david s

Lovely gentle little film sadly impaired by unnecessary use of profanity.Performances are uniformly strong (Lola Lasseron is wonderful ) and imaginative sets and art direction.Camera and quick cutting could have slowed down a bit and let the scenes breathe a bit.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/12/25

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Audience Member

As someone who didnt grow up with the delightfully quirky comic, the live-action movie is a wonderful way to dive into the world of Lou!. The movie itself is much like a teenage version of Amelia. Some of the actors are a bit stiff but the antics of the rest of the cast more then make up for it. Overall, the movie is a fun-filled, whimsical and light, which if you let it, will put a smile on your face.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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the best movie ever made

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Teen version of Amelie, but so stuffed with whimsy and cute camera quirks that it overlooks the necessity for a decent story featuring anything meaningful.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Julien Neel

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La mère

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Synopsis

Preteen Lou lives alone with her ridiculously immature mother, Emma, and spends her days playing with a cat, dining at a Chinese restaurant, and spying on her dreamy neighbor Tristan, documenting his every move -- until a new neighbor arrives.

Director: Julien Neel
Producer: Julien Deris, Franck Elbase, David Gauquié, Aurelien Larger, Nicolas Lesage
Screenwriter: Julien Neel, Marc Syrigas
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 9, 2018
Runtime: 1h 44m

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