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Innocence (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Written By:
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Frank Wedekind

Actors:
Zoé Auclair ..... Iris
Bérangère Haubruge ..... Bianca
Lea Bridarolli ..... Alice
Marion Cotillard ..... Mademoiselle Eva
Hélène de Fougerolles ..... Mademoiselle Edith
Alisson Lalieux ..... Selma
Astrid Homme ..... Rose
Ana Palomo-Diaz ..... Nadja
Olga Peytavi-Müller ..... Laura
Véronique Nordey ..... Chateau Attendant
Corinne Marchand ..... Headmistress
Sonia Petrovna ..... Headmistress's Assistant
Micheline Hadzihalilovic ..... Madeleine

Synopsis:

The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier than in the French film "Innocence." A parable about the lost paradise of girlhood, specifically those prepubescent years before a girl surrenders to the inevitable bumps and fluids, the film marks the directing debut of Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose seemingly plotless story centers on an all-girls boarding school in a thickly treed forest of the sort usually inhabited by hungry wolves and little wayfarers in symbolic red hoods. Ms. Hadzihalilovic based her screenplay on a relatively obscure text by the German-born playwright Frank Wedekind called "Mine-Haha, or the Corporeal Education of Young Girls." The fealty of Ms. Hadzihalilovic's translation of the Wedekind text notwithstanding, the dubious vision of utopia put forth in this film finds the girls engaged in an almost militaristic pursuit of physical perfection without commensurate attention paid to their intellect.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 05 December, 2006.

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