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A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
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- TriviaIn the 'extras' on the DVD release, the director relates that children playing unsupervised in nature (the forest, the pond) is a 'freeing' setting for them, an 'uncontrolled' environment to explore. Water is very important, as it is a highly visible medium in its many forms (including within or from underneath a surface), and it is necessary, sensual, and enjoyable, but also dangerous (the drowning), and evokes many emotions. Flowing water can also symbolize the passage of time. The dynamic of children relating to adults, not understating them or their actions, while seeing them as role models, is another dichotomy the director wanted to emphasize. Ambiguity and a 'dream-like' quality are also important elements of the film. She states they digitally enhanced or 'tweaked' colors in the film to 'non-realistic' tones, to achieve mood and lighting effect, particularly day for night shots. The director says she is not interested in explaining meaning: "... what I like in cinema is being lost. I like films I don't completely understand, so they stay with me longer after they're over," and, "I believe everyone can find their own stories within the film."
- Crazy creditsThe entire set of credits is shown at the opening of the movie.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
- SoundtracksOrchestral Suite from La Petite Renard Rusée
Composed by Leos Janácek
Libretto by Rudolf Tesnohlídek
Performed by Czech Philharmonic (as The Czech Philharmonic)
Conducted by Vaclav Talich
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An easy rule of thumb in judging films is that, as soon as Americans and Brits shout "It's French!" or "Pretentious" about it, you know that it's a good film. Furthermore, but not wholly related, judging by the calls of 'paedohphile film!' on this board, there seem to be a lot of anglophones who promptly associate "swimming young girls" with paedohphiliac sex. Of course, that says a lot about them, and their society's repressed and warped view upon the subject. Mostly it is just very sad. Since the film is very low on physical touching, (the youngest girl wants to kuddle with the oldest, but gets told off with a terse: "That is forbidden"), any sexual thought that arises is purely in the mind of the viewer.
When you're used to a diet of MTV style editing, where the image changes every 0.3 seconds (fact), or to a constant wallpaper of music for airports during any movie, (extreme case: Grey's Anatomy, where the sung words are sometimes as loud as the dialogue) then yeah, this movie might seem slow or boring.
The film is an obvious metaphor of coming-of-age, and not a big plot it has. So what? If Hollywood wants to make films which are basically radio-soaps, with pictures, then that's a choice, not a standard of film. The narrative aspect of film is heavily dominating the visual aspect these days, which is sad. If you want a story, read a book! Oh wait, Americans can't read ...
I see that a lot of the negative comments here come from males. The lack of any male part in the film might have something to do with that.
When you're used to a diet of MTV style editing, where the image changes every 0.3 seconds (fact), or to a constant wallpaper of music for airports during any movie, (extreme case: Grey's Anatomy, where the sung words are sometimes as loud as the dialogue) then yeah, this movie might seem slow or boring.
The film is an obvious metaphor of coming-of-age, and not a big plot it has. So what? If Hollywood wants to make films which are basically radio-soaps, with pictures, then that's a choice, not a standard of film. The narrative aspect of film is heavily dominating the visual aspect these days, which is sad. If you want a story, read a book! Oh wait, Americans can't read ...
I see that a lot of the negative comments here come from males. The lack of any male part in the film might have something to do with that.
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- The_Melancholic_Alcoholic
- Nov 15, 2007
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- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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