Tuesday, 21st May: Jeune Femme (15)

France/Belgium  –  Comedy, Drama  –  Year: 2017  –  Running time: 97 mins
Languages: French, English

Audience Response:

Rating: ★★★½☆ (3.7 from 30 responses)

  • Excellent’: 7 votes
  • ‘Very Good’: 13 votes
  • ‘Good’: 6 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 2 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 2 votes

Read the comments here or visit our “Jeune Femme” discussion page.

Synopsis:

Laetitia Dosch explodes on to, and is rarely off, the screen as Paula – a chaotic, impulsive thirty-something Parisienne – in this sensational directorial debut.  Naturally unable to do anything but live in the moment, we watch Paula try her best to reclaim a measure of stability and independence, making new friends and reassessing figures from her past.  An uplifting and life-enhancing movie.

With Jeune Femme, Sérraille has captured an at times painfully real story, with a brilliantly crafted and unapologetically brash character at the heart of it
Matthew Singleton (Film Inquiry)

Director: Léonor Serraille
Body (Short, 2016)
Cast:
Laetitia Dosch                                  …   Paula Simonian
Souleymane Seye Ndiaye               …   Ousmane
Grégoire Monsaingeon                    …   Joachim Deloche
Jean-Christophe Folly                      …  Médecin urgences
Nathalie Richard                              …   Paula’s mother
(for full cast, and more information, see “Jeune Femme” in IMDB)

Selected UK reviews:

Sight And Sound (Hannah McGill)
Observer (Mark Kermode)
Little White Lies (Christina Newland)

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Audience feedback for “Jeune Femme”

Audience feedback for “Jeune Femme”

There were 30 reaction slips returned following the screening of this film.  The results were: ‘Excellent’: 7 votes ‘Very Good’: 13 votes ‘Good’: 6 votes ‘Satisfactory’: 2 votes ‘Poor’: 2 vote To read all the comments, click on the following … Continue reading

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