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Bookmark this pageLittle Darling (2000)
Director: Anne Villacèque
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From Time Out Film Guide
Is this a black, miserabilist comedy or a serious drama? As with L'Humanité, produced by the same team, it's sometimes hard to tell. My guess is that writer/director Villacèque is trying to do a Mike Leigh, but in slightly more serious mode, as she charts the courtship of the plain, virginal and naive thirty-something of the title (that's how she's addressed, at any rate, by her over-protective and likewise worldly-unwise suburban parents) by a seedy, insecure and utterly unreliable chancer. Inexplicably all three look up to him, welcoming him as a romantic, canny hero. It's a rather patronising, even ugly film, not without some visual virtues and brave performances, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Anne Villacèque
Producer: Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb
Cast: Corinne Debonnière, Jonathan Zaccaï, Laurence Février, Patrick Préjean, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Sarah Haxaire, Philippe Ambrosini full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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