For her sixth feature film, French writer-director-actress Maïwenn (Polisse, Mon Roi) has definitely made one of her most introspective works yet.
I say introspective and not “autobiographical” — a term, which, per the press notes, is one that Maïwenn finds “reductive and inadequate.” And yet, the 44-year-old filmmaker is very much the beating heart of this latest family drama (or melodrama, which may be a more adequate term), both as the inspiration for the script (which she co-wrote with Mathieu Demy), the person playing the lead character and the director putting it all together in her own unruly and idiosyncratic way.
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