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Celle qui reste

2005 · 98 min

A quiet, tender rural drama about a girl finding her footing again after loss, carried by gentle emotional restraint.

Overview
Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she can't go to the sea with other children of the village. Then she meets Vincent, a younger boy who stayed in the village as well, and Alain, the mayor's son who's back in town to train his athleticism female club. Alice would like to run with her prosthesis but Jeanne doesn't want her to run nor to approach Alain.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • grief
    • identity
    • family
    • coming-of-age
    • isolation
    Places
    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    teen
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance3
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Virginie Sauveur
    Starring
    Jacques Spiesser, Julie Depardieu, Angèle Vivier, Julien Boisselier, Olivier Perrier, Arthur Vaughan-Whitehead, Martine Chevallier, Justine Jouxtel
    Cinematography
    Kika Ungaro
    Runtime
    98 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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