Un poison violent

Director: Katell Quillévéré
Cast: Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru
France, 92’, 2010, color
French, Italian, English with Turkish subtitles

Anna, a 14-years-old girl spends her holidays in her grandfather’s house. When she arrives, she realizes that her father left and her mother is devastated. A lot of mystique interrogations for the young girl who is also shaken by her first feeling about Pierre, a free spirited teenager and by her the changes her body is going through which modify the way how people look at her... Trapped in too many upheavals she tries to go over with the help of a priest of her village...

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