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Article: `C'est la Vie': Fuzzy Femininity
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 16, 1990
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In "C'est la Vie," the French director Diane Kurys creates a
mood of dappled melancholy that never seems to attach itself to
anything. Set in 1958, mostly in the French resort town of La Baule
les Pins, the film is about the breakup of a family as seen through
the eyes of a sensitive young girl.
Its heroine is a pretty adolescent named Frederique (Julie
Bataille) who, just as the family is preparing to leave on its
annual vacation, begins to notice strange, pregnant silences between
her parents. At first she chooses to bury her feelings. Her own
traumas, which are those of every adolescent girl at the moment of
budding womanhood, are in the foreground of her thoughts. Her
parents' ...