Justine Malle : 2012
Youth
Juliette, 20 years old, falls in love with Benjamin. At the same moment, her father starts to show signs of a mysterious illness. Her naive approach to love makes her vulnerable. In spite of the inevitable defeat, she undauntedly continues her quest for love, but when her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease and moves out into the countryside, the summer takes on a more serious twist. She is caught between the feelings that her father's illness and decline give her, and her own burning desire to feel and understand the emerging need for love, which her life at the same time offers her. The story of a young woman who innocently and naively enters into a Paris summer, but comes out the other end a great deal richer in knowledge about life, love and death. By exposing the weaknesses of youth and highlighting its infinite resources, Justine Malle's debut feature is a brutally honest story, largely inspired by her own life during the time up to her father, director Louis Malle's death in 1995. The film premiered in the Alice nella Città section at Rome Film Festival 2012.
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