The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.
Acting
Julie-Marie Parmentier's raw, unsentimental breakthrough performance.
Direction
Provost finds humor in the bleakest maternal moments.
Director
Martin Provost
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Part of early 2000s French 'jeune cinéma' exploring working-class female experience outside Parisian glamour.
Carmen Maura's casting deliberately echoes her Almodóvar matriarchs—subverting expectations of maternal warmth. The film refuses her redemption until the very last frame.
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