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Summary: The Saddest
Review: I had tears from the start of the film. I only wish Americans would write movies like this, for I am so touched by this film . . . . Thank you . . .
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Summary: Raw emotion!
Review: I saw this video a year ago, and it is still etched in my memory. What a powerful and moving film!! I am not one for sub-titles, and wasn't too sure how long I would be able to watch it. I think it took all of 5 minutes before I was hooked!! What an actress! I don't know though if I could watch it again. Too emotionally draining on me. One though, that I will NEVER forget. How old is she?
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Summary: The most therapeutic film I have ever seen!
Review: Bravo and thanks to the writer/director/actor Jacques Doillon. This movie has been a companion during a time where I have been grieving my own parents whom I lost as a child but did not have the environment in which to mourn them. This film and especially Ponette's courage to deal with her pain, has help me continue on with my own journey to get back to love.
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Summary: The best film dealing with childhood that I have ever seen.
Review: This is an extraordinarily moving film that seems to be well on its way to building a lasting and well deserved reputation. Victoire Thivisol's performance (yes, I believe that is the correct word - performance) is simply the best work that I have ever seen from a child on film.There have been complaints about the ending. As a matter of good story telling, you cannot take a character like Ponette through such heart break and devastation without giving her something in the end. Ponette is a heroine (yes, that is definitely the correct word - heroine) and she deserves peace and happiness. On the down side, Fox-Lorber has failed to transfer the film to DVD in its original theatrical aspect ratio (I know, I saw it theatrically). The full screen DVD transfer also does the film a disservice by placing the subtitles on the film image. Letterboxing would not only have preserved the original aspect ratio but given them the opportunity to place the subtitles in the black area below the film image. What is most important is that PONETTE is available on DVD and it is not to be missed. It is my considered belief that this film's reputation will continue to grow in the coming years. This is a film for generations yet unborn.
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Summary: Heartbreaking, but very worth it.
Review: I watched this film for a project for my developmental psychology class, and now I'm too emotionally drained to write my paper! Tears pouring out of your eyes make it very difficult to read the subtitles.
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Summary: Intensely poignant and moving.
Review: Young Victoire Thivisol delivers the purest acting I have ever seen on screen. This is a movie that shows how a child deals with a traumatic loss and the slow and painful process of coming to grips with the reality of death. Bravo Victoire!
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Summary: Astonishing
Review: This movie is simply astonishing. It is a wonderfully moving piece of art. The acting of the actress in the title role will blow you away. This film is in a class by itself.
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Summary: I'd give it six stars if I could!
Review: A heartbreaking, beautiful film. Wonderfully acted by four-year-old Victoire Thivisol in the title role. The movie is kept at a child's perspective, and we see though Ponette's own eyes, not her aunt's, her father's or even her mothers. When four-year-old Ponette's mother is killed in a cqar accident that breaks her daughters arm, the child is sent to live with her aunt and coussins at boarding school. The child, so grief-stricken, invents a grieving process of her own. Convinced her mother visits her at night (as opposed to dreams), she creates a religion with her mother at the center. She prays to her nightly, hoping that she will come back to her. Again, Thivisol (Winner of a 196 Best Actress Award at the Vienna Film Festival) acts beautifullly throughout the film. We love this charming face and wish we could take the hurt from her beautiful eyes. We burst into tears right along with her when her father yells to her: "Stop acting crazy! Your mother ISN'T coming back!" and we all feel our hearts ache when she muses out loud: "It is NOT joyful being a child!". Other young starlets are Matiaz Bureau Caton (Ponette's cousin of her age, who loves his cousin and cares deeply for her) and Delphine Schiltz (A beautiful redheaded, freckle-faced little girl; Ponette's smart-alecky yet charming older cousin). Two other charmers are Luce (a bubbly, darling child Ponette's age) and Ada(Another charmer, an openly religious girl who puts Ponette through "trials to become a child of God") Unfortunately, I am unable to find out the names of these girls). This film is a must-buy. (In French with subtitles)
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Summary: perfect
Review: splendi
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Summary: I liked it when she was grieving over her mother.
Review: I thought the movie was excellent! A high compelling story of a little girl, trying to get over the fact that her mother has died. She is very good at actressing and I thought it was a good movie.
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