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Young & Beautiful

Jeune et jolie (Young & Beautiful)

2013

François Ozon

Marine Vacth, Geraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Charlotte Rampling ...

6.4

10,511

Drama Isabelle (Marine Vacth) is on summer vacation in the South of France when she takes up a desultory relationship with Felix (Lucas Prisor), a hunky German tourist. He is neither her emotional nor her intellectual equal. We watch her give up her virginity to him, only to cast him aside without a care days later. We next meet Isabelle in the fall, back in Paris, where we discover that she's set up a website to accept appointments from ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"As fizzy and quenching as a pint of lemonade"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Jeune et Jolie' plays a little like 'Belle de Jour', but quite without Buñuel's beady-eyed subversion; Ozon is more concerned with keeping the apple-cart tensely teetering, rather than crashing over (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"Its elegant execution will win warm regard, while the baby 'Belle de jour' subject matter should lure audiences at arthouses worldwide"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A fascinating contemplation of adolescent sexuality that will be a star-making platform for its young lead, Marine Vacth."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What is most striking about this movie is how un-self-conscious it is as it conducts a prurient and superficial inquiry into adolescent female sexuality."	NEG
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"[It] has a very formal and elegant structure (...) A fascinating experience (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"At times a rich, intimate observation of emerging sexuality, the movie also maintains a quiet, observational rhythm that peaks around wintertime when things grow dark for the character and then more or less watches her grow up."	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"You might wonder, at 15 minutes in, whether a chunk of celluloid somehow went missing (...) Ozon isn’t interested in explanations, psychological insights, lessons, judgments... (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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