Please note: This was screened in Nov 2014
With a sly nod to Bunuel's Belle de Jour, ever-prolific director François Ozon's (In The House, Potiche) story of Isabelle (Marine Vacth), a 17-year-old student on an unexpected journey of sexual self-discovery, is something to behold. After losing her virginity during a brief holiday romance, Isabelle returns home and, over the course of the following year, embarks on a secret life of high-class prostitution. Her comfortable background, liberal upbringing and seeming lack of problems make her an obvious candidate for such a radical form of rebellion, yet she continues - that is, until one of her older clients experiences le petit mort in an unfortunately literal sense.
In many ways an extension of the mischievous Bristol hit In The House, Jeune et Jolie continues to explore the effects of rebellious teenage behaviour on the moral ideologies of the bourgeois. Aided by a star-making turn from Vacth as our adolescent provocateur, Ozon's unsensational approach perfectly compliments the youthful irreverence of his main character, while leaving us, the audience, to come to our own moral conclusions.
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