What do we really know about children? Until the Renaissance, artists were still painting them as freakish shriveled adults.
Only in the last century-ish did American society decide they probably should go to school instead of laboring all day in sweatshops.
And though modernity affords parents all the luxuries of developmental psychology and helicopter parenting, perhaps children still remain more of a mystery than we may think.
In “The Innocents,” which debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, Norwegian filmmaker Eskil Vogt (Joachim Trier‘s longtime screenwriter, who also directs) posits that we don’t know much about children at all.
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