A coffin arrives at an elite school for young girls deep in the woods. Within it, Iris (Zoe Auclair) is very much alive. The other girls take her in and explain the rules. Most of their studies revolve around the natural sciences and dance. She will learn that obedience is the key to her happiness. And perhaps she will come to appreciate the truth in this… ?
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s first feature is a suggestive, subversive fairy tale, the kind of film David Lynch might have made, if he’d been born a French woman in the early 1960s.
Innocence is full of charm and strangeness — and a sense that childhood is a place of incredible terrors and fleeting joys, of rapt innocence and fatal experience.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Innocence is not merely the year’s best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being ’tween.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice (2005)
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Zoe Auclair, Berangere Haubruge, Lea Bridarolli, Marion Cotillard, Helene de Fougerolles
France
2004
In French with English subtitles
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Credits
Screenwriter
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cinematography
Benoît Debie
Editor
Adam Finch
Original Music
Richard Cooke
Production Design
Arnaud de Moleron
Art Director
Pierre du Boisberranger
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