2016 ‘Ma vie de courgette’ Directed by Claude Barras
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
A zucchini has no real flavour of its own. When combined with the right ingredients and treated properly it takes on all flavours surrounding it, thus becoming part of the whole.
This is a metaphor, I'm not suggesting you should eat children.
Also watch this film. And be good to those you love.
And to those you don't love.
Just watch this film ok?
85
Consider myself floored, especially by its minimal runtime (70 minutes) and how it still manages to juggle the flow of childhood language, implications of the harrowing, and young, lost groups being revitalized by their respective traumas throughout an isolated, rudimentary setup. I can't praise this little movie enough. So many feels, so many truths, and yet always moving along a nice, quiet stream of compassion and kindness, never over-stuffing itself or settling for less.
wow that scene in the snow,
when they're looking up at
the moon -- what a moment.
Charming but slight, and unfortunately I couldn't shake my professional experience that kids with childhoods like that are extremely unlikely to be cute and sociable with only a surface layer of quirkiness.
So many horrible things happen to these children that are mentioned almost casually, but that is the way children speak of horrific events. They speak of their past traumas in a way that seems matter of fact almost to the point of indifference. Because the alternative is to be angry and sad all the time until it eats them up completely. See: Simon at the start of the film.
I did watch this in English. I have a feeling a little bit of the magic was lost, as the little audition clip for Courgette they placed right at the end just absolutely melted my heart. But my brain doesn’t like processing subtitles along with non-English words so I rarely manage it unless completely unavoidable.
2018 new-to-me film 80/100
Oh boy I promised not to cry, how this could be so pretty and heartbreaking.
Le vent nous portera.
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