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Young And Beautiful
Isabelle is on summer holidays and decides to lose her virginity to a German boy called Felix, but the experience leaves her cold. After that, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
23 September 1983, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
6 January 1963, Paris, France
6 January 1975, Orléans, Loiret, France
9 April 1991, Paris, France
June 13, 2014
...echoes Luis Bunuel's 1967 classic Belle de Jour in some obvious ways
May 16, 2014
The result is a movie that feels more like a lab report than any cogent exploration of the human condition, but again, it's this clinical approach that best approximates the female psyche as girls come of age.
June 05, 2014
Is she a virgin, or a whore? Surprise, she's both! This French drama about a teenager is infuriating in its reductive stereotypes.
August 15, 2014
Francois Ozon's quiet sexual drama raises more questions than it answers.
June 05, 2014
It is a nuanced look at a young woman's exploration of her own power, and lack thereof, as she rushes headlong toward adulthood.
May 16, 2014
Never amounts to anything more than its title's shallow descriptors.
June 30, 2014
It's a candid but insightful character study about adolescent impulses that feels more insightful than exploitative.
June 19, 2014
It became clear, as the movie wore on, that Ozon isn't interested in explanations, psychological insights, lessons, judgments, diagnoses, or any of the other stuff that normally preoccupies storytellers.
May 15, 2014
Ozon keeps things simmering without quite boiling over, even when convention might demand it.
May 15, 2014
Trying to figure out Isabelle keeps the viewer engaged, and Vacth's focused acting justifies her being almost continually in the frame.
May 20, 2014
Prostitution in polite society is still a nettle fearfully grasped. You see, society is not polite and it's about time movies stopped peddling that fluff.
June 12, 2014
This is a different kind of coming-of-age story.
