Sunday, December 04, 2011
GROWING UP
Today's film was
This sweet fable is a lovely evocation of a young girl's learning how to be her own young girl. Well, 10 going on 11.
Even I could identify with this pastoral locale where a girl left alone, no adults finds her self in small experiences.
The story itself is a bit of a stretch from the reality standpoint but that is not what this is about.
Fables should be fab-ulous and while there is some hurt and difficulty here, learning to live on your own and being allowed to draw one's own conclusions is a rare gift these days what with parents hovering over kids, the helicopter generation.
The cinematography and the real talent of Blanca Engstom, the girl, are very satisfying. No innocent, this girl answers many questions and, through the process of identification, so do we.
Yeh, it was like that!
I will give this a strong 3 out of Netflix5.
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