YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL

YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL (JEUNE & JOLIE), 2013

France| HDD, Color, 95’ | French, German

Cast:Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot

Isabelle, a 17-year-old high school student, resolves to become a prostitute in order to satisfy her sexual curiosity and her need for intimacy. Hiding the fact that she’s underage, she sleeps with considerably older men and seems quite nonchalant about it all. At first, she regards these experiences as a mere lark, but over time, they become a habit she can’t shake off. Ozon’s film is a cinematic study of the body, the family, adolescence, and sexuality, in which every change of season is marked by a different Françoise Hardy song.