Ava

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13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.

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6.6/10

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- 6 wins & 14 nominations

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Trivia
Laure Calamy has several nude scenes in this movie. "I feel very quickly at ease. Nudity tells something primitive, it transcends the times, it is universal," she says. In a dreamy scene, she appears with her legs spread on a counter. "I suggested to Léa Mysius that we see a little more than the pubic hair, that the vulva appears, in a slightly primitive state. She was so happy, she framed the sex in the center of the shot! I think it's great, it's almost political."

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Ava gets pretty bad vision in dark places early in the film, to the point where she can't see a hand waved a few centimeters in front of her face standing beside a fire at night. Later she gets into an abandoned building with almost no light coming in and she sees even small objects perfectly.

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Written and Performed by Nina Hagen and Jun Miyake

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Home before dark.

This is an uneven movie: the first part is made with sensitivity ,avoiding pathos and melodrama;the second one may puzzle some viewers and seems written haphazardly,improvised ,a little a la old "Nouvelle Vague".

Ava is going to go blind sooner as she expected :her desease is not so unusual ,I know a person who suffers from it:but the progression ,fortunately, is much slower than Ava's who is only thirteen ,an age where she a new world should be waiting for her,the first beau, the first young emotions.

Medical exams are boiled down to one scene:the diagnosis is given by the ophtamologist with sympathy,quite openly:no tears,no cries ,but a strong restrained pain.

Her mother ,unfortunately ,athough she acts with her daughter as a chum, is an immature selfish person:about forty ,she still believes she is young and pretty , and that she can seduce younger men (gigolos ,says Ava);she does not realize that time has taken its toll and that she cannot pass for a teenage girl anymore,even with all the make up in the world.

The mother's implicit acceptance of her daughter's tragedy leads the girl to an act of defiance ;mom told her daughter she should not sleep with the boys till she is sixteen or seventeen or even more,"it's not a shame" ;but shortly after ,she swims in the nude (the movie includes full frontal female nudity) and seduces a foreign boy ,probably an immigrant ;her second act of rebellion is helping him escape for the police ,who will intervene again during the wedding in the restaurant where Ava has become a waitress (the cause is not specified,but he is probably a foreign national whose papers are not in order).

This rebellion against establishment may symbolize a rebellion against her own fate ,this darkness which hangs over like a sword of Damocles.

However ,I still believe this second part is underwritten ;the director has her movie back in control again only in the last minutes, with a good use of light and darkness.

That said,on the current "feel-good" French scene,it is definitely a worthwhile work.