LOVED L'Effrontee! A 1985 French movie starring a very young Charlotte Gainsbourg, it brilliantly captures the painful emotional swings of early adolescence. It was painful, uncomfortable to watch this awkward, moody, very lonely 13 year old girl who becomes infatuated with a conventionally pretty, poised concert pianist also her own age.Charlotte Gainsbourg carried the film, but every actor was wonderful. Some parts that were particularly difficult: her relationship with an older man; and the intensity of her delusional infatuation. Also, her family is close friends with a little girl who is seriously ill.
Somehow all this melodrama was treated with a light touch, not heavy handed at all. And in the end it's a very sweet, or bittersweet, movie.
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