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Ava

2017 · 106 min

A sunlit, restless summer that drifts between dream and dread, watching a girl seize what she can before the light goes out.

Directed by: Léa Mysius
Genres: Drama
Starring: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano

Overview: Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...

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Directed by: Léa Mysius
Genres: Drama
Starring: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
identity
isolation
family
freedom
Places: sea
countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Léa Mysius
Written by: Paul Guilhaume, Léa Mysius
Starring: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano, Tamara Cano, Ismaël Capelot, Daouda Diakhaté, Baptiste Archimbaud, Franck Beckmann
Music: Florencia Di Concilio
Cinematography: Paul Guilhaume
Runtime: 106 min
Country: France
Languages: French, Spanish

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