Love Like Poison

Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
Love Like Poison image - a film by Katell Quillévéré
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Love Like Poison poster - a film by Katell Quillévéré
A bittersweet gem. Quillévéré reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker. A coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end. A film whose gentleness and humanity will leave you sighing with assent
Peter Bradshaw
THE GUARDIAN
You’d be hard pushed to find a more honest and tender portrayal of early adolescence. Quillévéré approaches her subject matter with great sensitivity. It’s a confident depiction of the conflicting emotions of a young teenager, and one that never shies away from showing its more confusing and uncomfortable side. But what really makes the film a success is Augarde’s captivating performance, a natural screen presence; she perfectly embodies a mix of awkwardness, vulnerability and spirit
Guy Lodge
THE LIST
'Stealing Beauty' transplanted to the meadows and hedgerows of Brittany
Phil de Semlyen
EMPIRE
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Cast: Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru, Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil
Duration: 92mins
Country of Origin: France
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Coarse language, nudity and mature themes
A bittersweet gem. Quillévéré reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker. A coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end. A film whose gentleness and humanity will leave you sighing with assent
Peter Bradshaw
THE GUARDIAN
You’d be hard pushed to find a more honest and tender portrayal of early adolescence. Quillévéré approaches her subject matter with great sensitivity. It’s a confident depiction of the conflicting emotions of a young teenager, and one that never shies away from showing its more confusing and uncomfortable side. But what really makes the film a success is Augarde’s captivating performance, a natural screen presence; she perfectly embodies a mix of awkwardness, vulnerability and spirit
Guy Lodge
THE LIST
'Stealing Beauty' transplanted to the meadows and hedgerows of Brittany
Phil de Semlyen
EMPIRE

WINNER - 2010 PRIX JEAN VIGO
OFFICIAL SELECTION (DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT) - 2010 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

The tender, frank and award-winning debut feature from Katell Quillévéré has a young girl’s impending confirmation as the setting for a collision between love, faith and burgeoning sexuality.

14 year-old Anna (striking newcomer Clara Augarde) has returned from boarding school to her small bucolic village in Brittany, where she lives with her devoutly Catholic and newly-single mother (Lio) in the house of her ailing paternal grandfather (Michel Galabru). Along with her absent father and the compassionate parish priest, these adults offer new and often-conflicting world views and advice to the confused teenager. Her budding relationship with a neighbourhood boy Pierre (Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil) unveils additional unexplored territory, the conflict between faith and sexual discovery may be irreconcilable…

Delicately shifting between these various characters just as our protagonist pinballs uneasily among them, LOVE LIKE POISON is beautifully written and acted, augmented by an evocative score, a rebellious streak of black humour and lushly photographed locations. Rapturous in tone, this is one of the most personal coming-of-age tales of recent French cinema, marking Quillévéré and her young star as major discoveries.

Love Like Poison poster - a film by Katell Quillévéré
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