My Little Princess (2011)

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The French actress Eva Ionesco mines her own scandalous past in her debut feature. Ionesco's mother, Franco-Romanian photographer Irina Ionesco, famously shot and sold erotic photography of her daughter at the age of five, initiating a queasy career that culminated in appearances in the Italian edition of Playboy at 11. Her story has already inspired Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Ionesco herself has spent much of her adult life dealing with the after-effects, repeatedly suing her mother for emotional distress.
In this fictional telling, Ionesco's mother is played by a peroxided, full-diva mode Isabelle Huppert, and much of the film revolves around the love-hate dynamic young Ionesco had with this glamorous, narcissistic figure. As cutting as she is about her mother, Ionesco does not shy away from a candid portrait of her younger self as a bratty, obnoxious teen (portrayed by newcomer Anamaria Vartolomei).
“Ionesco directs the film with a pensive detachment and never judges the characters. She shies away from the more experimental sensibility that a director like Todd Haynes or Tom Kalin might have brought to the transgressive material, creating a more conventional but also more accessible piece of storytelling. She captures a genuine sense of the affection that permeates these troubled, claustrophobic lives…"–Allan Hunter, Screen

Hannah et Violetta forment un couple hors du commun : mère insaisissable et fillette en quête d'amour maternel, artiste fantasque et modèle malgré elle. Lorsqu’Hannah demande à sa fille si elle veut être son modèle, tout bascule dans la vie de Violetta qui vivait jusque là avec sa tendre grand mère. D’une enfance banale elle devient égérie du milieu branché parisien …

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