Des bleus au coeur

Original title: Reviving Ophelia

TV Movie
2010
TV-14
1h 32m

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Rebecca Williams, Nick Thurston, and Carleigh Beverly in Des bleus au coeur (2010)

The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters.The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters.The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters.

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6.3/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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8rob-riches

Excellent Movie but Overbalanced Towards the Feminine

This is one excellent movie. The characters have been stretched from real life people towards easily recognizable stereotypes that create an emotional tension which invites audience participation (what would you do?) and which heightens the issues and of teenage infatuation, 'love' as ownership, being overly agreeable as an unworkable position, and the traps that girls fall into by caring too much (among others).

The writers were women, so the characterization of the female characters was outstanding, but they clearly don't understand the emotional conflicts experienced by males (who does, actually?), so the male acting was unpotentiated which, if it had been with more emotional beef would have made this a first class movie.

7monkey_kelstar

Not bad at all

For a TV movie, this was pretty good. Though I don't have any experience with these kinds of situations, it seemed realistic. It was also very intense and pretty creepy at times. I actually felt myself becoming frightened for the different characters from time to time.

I also learned quite a bit from this movie. I don't think I'll easily forget the signs that one is in an abusive relationship, or what to do if I suspect someone else is in one. I definitely hope I never make the same mistake that Lizzie did, though, and I hope a lot of people won't, after they see this.

All in all, the acting, writing, and directing were all above average for this movie, and I would recommend it.

5SnoopyStyle

Lifetime melodrama

Le Anne Dunley (Kim Dickens) arrives home to find her daughter Kelli having oral sex. She send Kelli to stay with her aunt Marie Jones (Jane Kaczmarek). Le Anne and Marie are sisters with differing styles. Marie and her husband Walter have Elizabeth who is around the same age as Kelli and goes to the same school. Elizabeth has possessive boyfriend Mark. Kelli starts to suspect Mark of disturbing behaviors but aunt Marie sees Kelli as the bad seed and Elizabeth as the perfect child. Mark hits Elizabeth but they pass a lie to her parents. Mark get more and more jealous of her male classmate. Cody tries to befriend Kelli but she distrusts guys in general.

This is the classic Lifetime melodrama of abusive boyfriend and abused girlfriend. There are some good adult actors. I'm not familiar with the younger actors except for Joe Dinicol. He's generally pretty good. This is a melodrama without much tension or actual drama. It's paint-by-numbers. Elizabeth's delusions are almost as infuriating as Mark's violence. This is Lifetime at its Lifetimiest.

10josephinaoseibonsu

A GREAT MASTERPIECE TO EVERYONE OUT THERE..

This movie is so far the best to me !! It's very educative and informing to my fellow ladies out there.. Please Kindly note that abuse is not love .. To Lizzie she thought the dude was in love with her that's why he was treating in such way !!

Frankly speaking ,I were Kelli I wouldn't have bother myself that much of Lizzie cox she thinks highly of herself .. My favorite character was Kelli and I love the bond between her and her mom!!

7hannahsmith-215-244458

Raises good awareness

Reviving Ophelia is a great movie for older teenage girls. A little over-dramatic (okay, way over-dramatic) and terrible acting, but raises good awareness about abusive relationships. Sometimes we don't know someone's crazy until it's too late.

I wish I had known the things this movie teaches before I had started dating. It's also important for parents to know how to handle the situation. Because it's true. If you push back on your child who is in an abusive relationship, they will only hide things from you and stay with the abuser.

For younger teenagers, there are small parts you might want to skip. No significant nudity is shown, but a mom walks in on her daughter giving a random guy from her English class oral sex. She doesn't get away with it and learns, so some parents might not mind.

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Goofs
When Elizabeth walks down the school hall after making love with Mark, several students look directly into the camera.

Quotes
Elizabeth: [opens the door] Kelli's lying, okay? She hates Mark.
[throws bag to the right of the door]
Marie: How long are you gonna keep denying it?
Elizabeth: I-I fell - I tripped over the curb-I
[Marie grabs her from behind]
Marie: [hysterical, emotional] You look in the mirror!
Elizabeth: [mutters] Or what?
Marie: Tell me you did that to your face by falling!
[pushes past her]
Elizabeth: Mom - where -
[follows her mom, who goes to Elizabeth's room]
Elizabeth: Mom, what are you doing?
Marie: [starts rifling through her things] You weren't in a car accident the other night. He hit you, didn't he?
Elizabeth: No, no.
Marie: Kelli said she saw him crawling out of the window. He was here that night, wasn't he? You have been lying and you have been sneaking around to protect what? A boy who hits you?
[finds something in the drawer and Elizabeth vainly tries to get it back and she reads it aloud]
Marie: Sorry. Sorry. What does he have to be sorry for, Elizabeth?
[tears up the card]
Marie: You are never, ever seeing that boy again. You hear me?
Elizabeth: [emotional] You don't get it. I love him. I can't live without him; I will always love him.
Marie: [voice increases in volume] What is wrong with you? He hit you!
Elizabeth: You don't understand, okay? It was my fault!
[crying; Marie comes over and clasps her head in her hands]
Marie: You get that thought out of your head. Do you hear me?
[after some seconds embraces her with a deep sigh]