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Stella
Thanks to the luck of the draw, 11-year-old Stella gets assigned to an upper-class Parisian school. She despises her new classmates whom she perceives to be “sheltered types” who are probably “in bed by 8:30 without watching TV.” At the same time, she longs to fit in. Coming from a working-class neighborhood, Stella’s own life is highly unusual for a kid her age. She lives in a seedy hotel-pub run by her parents, where her feisty, attractive mother is the boss. Stella’s evenings are spent surrounded by her parents’ friends and customers, who happen to be the local tramps and drunks. The parents spend most of their time absorbed with running the pub, and Stella is left to take care of herself. She may know a lot about cocktails, pinball, and the rules of pool, but none of it has prepared her to survive the kids in her new school. She remains a misfit and alone, both at school and at home until she befriends Gladys, the smartest girl in her class. Her new friend provides a relief from the loneliness and introduces her to a new world of possibilities.
Sponsors:
Consulate General of France, San Francisco, TV5 Monde
Cast & Crew
Director: Sylvie Verheyde
Producer: Bruno Berthemy
Editor: Christel Dewynter
Screenwriter: Sylvie Verheyde
Cinematographer: Nicolas Gaurin
Music: NousDeux
Principal Cast: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodrigues, Karole Rocher, Benjamin Biolay, Guillaume Depardieu
Filmography: Princesses (2000); A Brother... (1997)
World Sales: Films Distribution
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Transition..., May 22, 2009
By Richard Erwin
“...seen from the eyes of a young girl being given access to a new world, and a means of escape from one that's more harsh, more unforgiving.
Very quiet, relatively low-key, given the events that occur from time to time in the movie.
The key scene where you see a key transition happen”
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Interesting story, a few flaws, Jun 11, 2009
By Mimi Noyes
“Stella is a girl growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her parents run a "cafe" which is really a bar, the patrons of which are generally welfare alcoholics with loose habits, short tempers, and even shorter lifespans. For reasons never made particularly clear, Stella begins attending a”
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