Young & Beautiful

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Rosana B Esse filme nos causa uma série de reflexões, lembra-me muito a autenticidade de Bruna Surfistinha, o olhas feminino sobre sexo, prazer, poder, independência... Vejo meninas, sexualmente ativas e estimuladas, desejando o "proibido", e se satisfazendo, não somente pelo dinheiro, incompreensível para a maioria de nós, mas imagino que um íntimo conturbado entre prazer consciente e a moral do culturalmente aceito, recatada e do lar… Um filme questionador... Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review dave s While spending the summer with her family in the south of France, 17-year-old Isabelle (Marine Vacht) loses her virginity to a short-term romantic interest. Jumping ahead a few months, it is revealed that Isabelle is now a high-priced call-girl working under the pseudonym Lea, all while maintaining her studies and keeping the secret from her family. Francois Ozon's Young and Beautiful is a surprisingly tender, if not unorthodox, coming-of-age tale, featuring a strong performance from Vacht and some excellent production values. If there is one complaint it would be the fact that Ozon seems to avoid any explanation concerning the psychology or motivation behind what would cause a young girl to swing so radically from losing her virginity to prostitution, leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Aesthetically very pleasing, very sensual and poetically visualised movie, however the plot doesn't seem to go anywhere. It's very hard to understand the main character, but maybe the movie is about the inexplicable desire she has, maybe that's the point, the beauty and the poetry this story is trying to tell us about. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Joven y bonita [2014] Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member With this one Ozon was too in love with his own subject, although I might be biased. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review james w Starts out as a fairly typical French exploration of the crease between sex and ennui, and from there goes.... well, not very far. It takes a detached, indifferent loss of virginity into the adult world, and magnifies the boredom, intentionally, which is an important insight when cinema has a tendency to make sex a kind of mystic religion. The film has some merit as a character study: Marine Vacth is really interesting to watch, not just because of her extraordinary youthful beauty but because she conveys a great deal with a look, and understands the body language of her character. A few stylistic flourishes elevate the material: the device of "ghosts" that appear to our main character provide nice emotional punctuation. But it lacks any real wit to alleviate the tone of unremitting tedium or to deepen the characters; the movie drowns in its own pessimism. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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