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My Little Princess

France

2011

105 Min
Color
2.35:1
French, English
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DIR Eva Ionesco

EXEC François Marquis

SCR Eva Ionesco, Marc Cholodenko, Philippe Le Guay

DP Jeanne Lapoirie

CAST Isabelle Huppert, Anamaria Vartolomei, Georgetta Leahu, Denis Lavant, Pascal Bongard, Jethro Cave, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Nicolas Maury

PROD DES François-Renaud Labarthe

MUSIC Bertrand Burgalat

SOUND Olivier Mauvezin

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), Vancouver (Spotlight on France), Göteborg (Debuter)

Synopsis

Hannah and Violetta are an odd couple: an elusive mother and a little girl in search of maternal love, a fanciful artist and her reluctant model.

When Hannah asks Violetta if she would like to be her model, her life with her loving grandmother is turned upside down. From a normal childhood to muse of the trendy Paris art scene… –Semaine de la critique

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Eva Ionesco

Eva Ionesco (born on 18 July 1965) is a French actress and film director, born in Paris. She is the daughter of Romanian-French photographer Irina Ionesco.

At the age of 5, Eva became her mother’s favorite photo model. Irina Ionesco’s erotic photographs of her young daughter Eva have been a source of controversy since they first appeared in the 1970s. Eva also modeled for other photographers such as Jacques Bourboulon.

She is the youngest model ever to appear in a Playboy nude pictorial, since she was featured at age 11 in the October 1976 issue of the Italian edition of the magazine in a set by Bourboulon. Another of her nude pictorials, in the November 1978 issue of the Spanish edition of Penthouse, was a selection of her mother’s photographs. She made also the cover page of Der Spiegel.

Eva Ionesco made her movie début at the age of eleven in 1976, playing a child in Roman Polanski’s movie The Tenant. A short time later she… read more

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Altero

13Jan13

" – Viens, on part en voyage. – Je reste ici. – Alors tu ne verras pas Sid Vicious et tu ne feras pas de shopping."

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gea*

13Jun12

Very well done, beautiful to look at, but the mother and daughter quarreling felt never ending at times. Seemed like Eva had more to say with this film but didn't know how to go about it.

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acidpolly

22Jan12

I realize it must be hard to make a movie based on your own life story. I'd call this effort not that convincing but Isabelle Huppert can make any week movie look awesome

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mintghost

6Jan12

Nicely told.

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