Childhood is full of mysteries. When people are intentionally keeping secrets from you, it’s natural to look for solutions. Adults may begin with logic and reason. Children, with more pressing emotional needs, are as likely to begin with imagination.
Eight-year-old Billie (Maélya Boyd) lives with her grandmother Marthe (Genevieve Langlois) and father Fred (Corey Loranger). She can’t remember her mother, but realises that she must have one. Enchanted by luminous black and white visions of dancers in tutus, she becomes convinced that the missing woman is a famous ballerina called Karen. Marthe insists this isn’t true and that her mother’s name is Geneviève, refusing to let her make the dancer the subject of her school presentation. She concludes that Marthe is lying to her, that her family is trying to keep her and her mother apart, and that she will have to go out and find the truth for herself.
Eight-year-old Billie (Maélya Boyd) lives with her grandmother Marthe (Genevieve Langlois) and father Fred (Corey Loranger). She can’t remember her mother, but realises that she must have one. Enchanted by luminous black and white visions of dancers in tutus, she becomes convinced that the missing woman is a famous ballerina called Karen. Marthe insists this isn’t true and that her mother’s name is Geneviève, refusing to let her make the dancer the subject of her school presentation. She concludes that Marthe is lying to her, that her family is trying to keep her and her mother apart, and that she will have to go out and find the truth for herself.
- 3/2/2025
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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