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Bad Company |
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Jean-Pierre Ameris's 1999 feature Bad Company is a solid, unusually measured drama full of reversed expectations. It is a film about hidden, adolescent torment and the rise of a secret life lived beneath the radar of trusting parents, yet it is an exceptionally bright, pretty, and visually extroverted production. Its subject concerns doomed romanticism, but it is finally an adamantly romantic movie. Two 16-year-old girls, the sheltered Delphine (Maud Forget) and emotionally isolated Olivia (Lou Doillon), pair up as unlikely friends, delve into sexual exploration with a couple of creeps, and agree to let the latter pimp them off in an absurd quest to raise traveling money. One might expect a lot of grit and shock here, but Bad Company is more interested in the elasticity of youthful experience and durability of human dignity. The intense, highly focused performances of the two young leads (Doillon is the daughter of actress Jane Birkin) are remarkable. --Tom Keogh
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