The girl with a bracelet (La fille au bracelet)
Thriller, Trial – France, Belgium – 2019 – 95′
In French with English Subtitles
Synopsis
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
“I love you” means nothing. Everyone says “I love you”. A young girl called to the witness stand casually drops these disarmingly simple words that are enough to give one chills. That is a recurring feeling throughout this unusually precise courtroom drama, where words and their power are at the center of attention. In this case, the legal proceedings become the ritual of a society putting its own youth on trial.
Locarno Film Fest
Directed by
Stéphane Demoustier
Cast
Melissa Guers, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Fois, Anais Demoustier
Crew
Director: Stéphane Demoustier
Screenplay Stéphane Demoustier (based on the script of ACUSADA by G. Tobal and U. Porra Guardiola) Director of Photography Sylvain Verdet Sound Emmanuel Bonnat, Julie Brenta, Emmanuel de Boissieu Editor Damien Maestraggi Music Carla Pallone
Reactions
“In a way, Demoustier’s film is an inverse coming-of-age film, interested in how a teenage girl develops when the most important years of development are stunted. The final images are telling and tragic.”
— Film Inquiry
“What Demoustier has done here, and done quite successfully, is taken a basic mystery plot, like something out of a TV movie, and used it to ponder how each one of us could react to a ghastly crime, and how we expect others to react in turn.” — Hollywood Reporter
“Retains many of the merits of its source, similarly building an old-fashioned did-she-or-didn’t-she mystery… into a more probing, ambiguity-laced psychological profile.”— Variety
Awards and Fests
Locarno International Film Festival
El Gouna Film Festival
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