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Bookmark this pageLittle Big Girl (2002)
Director: Morten Køhlert
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From Time Out Film Guide
This family-oriented period drama adapts Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage to gently moralising effect. Werner is appealing as 'stinky Tinke', a strong-willed, late 19th century seven-year-old who has survived in the woods following the death through illness of her eloped parents - her mother, the daughter of a family of substance, her father a peasant. Credibility is strained watching Tinke transform from a wild child who bites wolves to a teacher-by-example of class- and prejudice-defying values through her relationship with a family (notably the half-witted gentle giant Laurus). But the film's essential decency, warmth, cinematic competence and standard of acting are enough to commend it.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Morten Køhlert
Producer: Henrik Møller-Sørenson
Cast: Sarah Juel Werner, Peter Jeppe Hansen, Benny Dahl, Erik Wedersøe, Birthe Neumann, Bent Mejding full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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