A young provincial girl (Mercedes Cecchetto)leaves home to come to Paris to train to be a sous chef, but soon finds herself drifting into a world of petty crime and paid sex. This is actually a fairly realistic film, but it is strangely lacking in the exploitation value most films, especially most non-French films, would have tried to wring out of this plot. The girl simply doesn't do anything THAT sordid. She engages in petty crime with a low-rent boyfriend. She is obsessed with "clubbing", but doesn't become involved with drugs or anything. She becomes a sex worker, but kind of a high-class sex performer as opposed to a more exploited street-walker. She also isn't especially sympathetic--she is vapid and self-absorbed and does things that kind of alienate her from audience sympathies, like stealing from the family of a friend who gives her a place to stay.
Mercedes Cecchetto, who also co-directed, is not very believable in the role of a naive teen. She is much too mature and frankly, with her tres voluptuous body, looks more like a featured performer at the Paris Crazy Horse Saloon than an adolescent girl. Strangely, when the Indiecrush distribution company and Amazon Prime recently resurrected this obscure French movie, they cut out Cechetto's long full-frontal nude scene for some reason. This was definitely a mistake because the actresses truly stupendous breasts at least give this movie some genuine exploitation value it is otherwise sorely lacking. This would not be a problem if the character were more believable and sympathetic, but it ends up being neither emotionally-moving NOR satisfyingly exploitative (especially in the cut version).
This movie isn't a total waste of time, but it also just doesn't leave much of an impression.
Mercedes Cecchetto, who also co-directed, is not very believable in the role of a naive teen. She is much too mature and frankly, with her tres voluptuous body, looks more like a featured performer at the Paris Crazy Horse Saloon than an adolescent girl. Strangely, when the Indiecrush distribution company and Amazon Prime recently resurrected this obscure French movie, they cut out Cechetto's long full-frontal nude scene for some reason. This was definitely a mistake because the actresses truly stupendous breasts at least give this movie some genuine exploitation value it is otherwise sorely lacking. This would not be a problem if the character were more believable and sympathetic, but it ends up being neither emotionally-moving NOR satisfyingly exploitative (especially in the cut version).
This movie isn't a total waste of time, but it also just doesn't leave much of an impression.
