Love According to Dalva

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Love According to Dalva

2022

1h 23m

Drama

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Dalva, 12, lives alone with her father. One evening, the police storms into their home and takes her into foster care. As Dalva befriends her new roommate Samia and social worker Jayden, she gradually comes to understand the love she shared with her father was not what she thought. With their help, Dalva will learn to become a child again.

Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

04/30/2023

4/5

It’s an uncomfortable watch, but this assured French-language debut from director Emmanuelle Nicot negotiates its disturbing subject matter with delicacy, sensitivity and honesty.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

04/27/2023

4/5

This deserved award-winner at Cannes last year manages the tricky feat of mining difficult and potentially lurid material without a single exploitative beat.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

04/24/2023

4/5

In interviews director Nicot has said she spent a long time researching the care system in France; that attention shows in her truthful-feeling and raw film.

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Leonardo Garcia Tsao

La Jornada

08/22/2023

In a certain way, this is a reverse coming-of-age story. [Full review in Spanish]

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Alejandro Alemán

El Universal

08/22/2023

Emmanuelle Nicot deals with an extremely lurid subject in a deeply honest, and delicate way, without exploiting or re-victimimization, but also without fear of causing discomfort in the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

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Saskia Baron

The Arts Desk

05/02/2023

2/5

The ascribing of precocious sexual maturity to children of ethnic origin in white European society is a shameful, damaging phenomenon and one that this film fails to address.

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Pat K

04/30/2023

It's a powerful, beautifully made film about a potentially off-putting subject. Don't let the topic of the film stop you seeing it - it's really sensitively made, deeply moving with a deeply hopeful ending. The girl playing Dalva is a star in the making.

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Dalva, 12, lives alone with her father. One evening, the police storms into their home and takes her into foster care. As Dalva befriends her new roommate Samia and social worker Jayden, she gradually comes to understand the love she shared with her father was not what she thought. With their help, Dalva will learn to become a child again.

Director: Emmanuelle Nicot
Producer: Julie Esparbes, Delphine Schmit
Screenwriter: Emmanuelle Nicot
Production Co: Hélicotronc, Tripode Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 23m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)