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Innocence [2005]
from Artificial Eye
starring Marion Cotillard, Helene De Fougerolles, Zoe Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Berangere Haubruge
directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Beware the 'similar items'!
  Innocence is nothing like the other DVDs you might see in the 'similar items' category. If you're looking for something which blends eroticism with art then this is not the film for you.
  If, however, you are looking for a refreshing exploration of childhood then Innocence is the film for you. There are sinister sexual overtones but they are presented as exactly that. This is a film about the beauty of childhood. Hadlizahilovic challenges the viewer's preconceptions by suggesting and then withdrawing... more info

• Beautifully made but......
  I think this film didn't quite work for me because I was expecting something else, something more menacing in the way of Calvaire. Although this does have a sinister air about it, it is quite a different film.
  From time to time, I did find myself getting taken along with it, but untimely I was wondering what it was really all about and why it was made.
  I can understand how some may find the viewing uncomfortable, there were moments when I felt it myself. I am not innocent and I know the world we... more info

• Many questions, not enough answers
  If Lucile Hadzihalilovic was aiming for an enigmatic debut with Innocence - then she's certainly succeeded!
  The film is set in the micro-reality of a private school cut off from the rest of the world by a surrounding wall. The girls in the school arrive in a coffin to begin their stay. Sounds dark? The feeling continues.
  They have no visitors, in fact; no contact with the outside world whatsoever. They have a hierarchical system identified by coloured hair ribbons - red, for example; represents... more info

• Magical, mysterious and sinister...
  I had never heard of this film before i picked it off the shelf, so I had no idea what to expect.
  It's based on 'Mine-Haha, or the Physical Education of Young Girls', by a German playwright named Frank Wedekind. The plot revolves around a boarding school for girls roughly aged 5 or 6 up until they hit puberty, in the middle of a dense forest.
  As soon as the film starts, it fills the viewer with a sense of foreboding, with a long, flickery opening featuring a child-sized coffin and no music, but a... more info

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