Directed by:
Eva IonescoCinematography:
Jeanne LapoirieComposer:
Bertrand BurgalatCast:
Isabelle Huppert, Denis Lavant, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Pascal Bongard, Déborah Révy, Lou Lesage, Anamaria Vartolomei, Serge Bozon, Thérèse Quentin (more)Plots(1)
An autobiographical look back on the strange and disarming relationship of a mother and her daughter, My Little Princess explores the limits of control and contradictions inherent in artistic freedom from the microcosm of a perverse dynamic. Love and hate are almost interchangeable between Hanna (Isabelle Huppert) and her precocious daughter Violetta (Anamaria Vartolomei). Based on a true story, the film unravels the controversy of an idiosyncratic woman attuned to a bygone era whose lavish sense of style and lack of revenue resorted in her selling erotic photos of her daughter which caused a controversy in the French art world. (Accent Film Entertainment)
(more)Reviews (1)
At the beginning, it seemed pretty artsy to me to the point that I was saying to myself that I didn’t know whether I could handle such a wave of artsiness. The mother portrayed by Isabella Huppert pissed me off from the moment the movie started. But later I understood that she was supposed to piss me off because the things she did were pretty crazy and had a strong impact on the rest of the movie. After about 40 minutes, the movie shifts its focus from the artists onto the daughter of that crazy artist, who was portrayed brilliantly by Anamaria Vartolomei. Well and at that point, the gradation started and the movie went all the way, as French movies tend to do. The ending literally swept me off my feet so much that I’m still speechless. Finally, a good old French movie that takes only the best of French history. I tip my hat off to the director Eva Ionesco, for whom this movie was a directorial debut.
()