Cannes Review: La Gradiva Is a Remarkable Debut of Extraordinary Sensitivity
Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva—winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize—begins from a familiar cinematic premise: a school trip abroad for a busload of restless teenagers temporarily freed from the surveillance of home. Yet the film steadily slips from the gravitational pull of genre. The phrase “teen movie” tends to conjure the noisy architecture of
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