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Ponette (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 20

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Average Rating: 8.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: After a car crash injures her and claims the life of her mother, intelligent and inquisitive four-year-old Ponette contends with the loss and her attendant questions about the nature of human existence. A sensitive and thoughtful... After a car crash injures her and claims the life of her mother, intelligent and inquisitive four-year-old Ponette contends with the loss and her attendant questions about the nature of human existence. A sensitive and thoughtful meditation that authentically renders the child's perspective. Thivisol won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. [More]

Starring: Victoire Thivisol, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Delphine Schiltz, Marie Trintignant

Starring: Victoire Thivisol, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Delphine Schiltz, Marie Trintignant, Xavier Beauvois

Director: Jacques Doillon

Director: Jacques Doillon
Producer: Alain Sarde
Screenwriter: Jacques Doillon
Composer: Philippe Sarde

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... as powerful a film as has been made about the interior life of children.

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Outstanding study of troubled child

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The kind of intimate drama that stops you in your tracks and leaves you marveling at the magnificence of the human soul.

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