Anna comes home on vacation, to the small town where her parents and grandparents live, but there she is waiting for the unpleasant news: her father has left home. Soon, another tragedy falls on the family - the death of Anna's grandmother. A disheveled mother thinks only about the speedy confirmation of her 14-year-old daughter and blames her husband for abandoning them both with his sick father. Anna herself does not want to go to boarding school, but wants to leave with her father.
It is not easy for a girl where her opinion is of little interest to adults. As the girl grows up, her body changes, her feelings too. And the shape of the knees or the size of the breasts is as important as the departure of the father from the family. And more important than some religious ritual. The story in most scenes is shown through Anna's eyes, there's not much dialogue in it - more silence and observation.
A entangled mother loses loved ones one by one and seeks comfort and support from a priest. The father is in no hurry to think about her daughter, and Anna has to call and ask him to come. She does not yet understand that in this case conflict is inevitable, she still believes that her father will keep his word and take her with him to another city.
The friends leave, only Pierre remains, who willingly walks with her in the woods, talks and even plays a touching song on the guitar. Only with him and with the priest Anna can discuss what is happening to her, and that is not all.
Anna doesn't want to go to boarding school until she loses consciousness. No wonder I wouldn’t want to either. They showed how they live there: a room divided by partitions into compartments like a coupe, in which one wall has a bed, the other has a wardrobe. There's a towel hanger. Near the bedroom is a large bathroom with sinks and showers. No "personal life", life as in an anthill - in plain sight.
I love movies about the ordinary life of ordinary people, preferably in some outback, where all feelings and thoughts, virtues and vices are visible as in the palm of your hand. The film won the Jean Vigo Award in 2010. It is very helpful to sometimes go down from your high ladder of wisdom and life experience to the first steps to remind yourself that children perceive life in a very different way. It is impossible to decide everything for children without consulting them. After all, they are not things that can be put in any corner or put away in any drawer. And you can’t shift your adult problems to their fragile shoulders either – they react differently to them, and the result may be unexpected. Moral: Dear parents, do not forget yourself as children, please!
9 out of 10