{"id":14475,"date":"2024-05-15T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/wild-diamond-review-french-social-realist-drama-fuelled-by-tiktok-energy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:37:20","slug":"wild-diamond-review-french-social-realist-drama-fuelled-by-tiktok-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/wild-diamond-review-french-social-realist-drama-fuelled-by-tiktok-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Diamond review \u2013 French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film<\/p>\n

Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks \u2013 but the director is also bringing some pretty old school social realism, exerting its downward gravitational pull. The result is forthright and fluent and fiercely acted by a newcomer lead who, in the time-honoured style of movies like this, is defiant, vulnerable and front and centre of almost every shot. But it also sometimes treads water in terms of narrative, running out of ideas before the end, and its final ambiguity about an ultimate success that is there to be hallucinated rather than achieved feels anticlimactic.<\/p>\n

Liane, played by Malou Khebizi, is a 19-year-old with a French and Italian background living in Fr\u00e9jus in the south of France. She was once given up for foster care by her troubled mother but now taken back home and is now in charge of babysitting her kid sister, whom she is busily turning into a mini-me version of her own brassy, sexualised image. Liane shoplifts and sells the stolen goods \u2013 which has paid for her breast-implant surgery and she has also had her lips done. She hangs out with her friends, getting drunk, but is fastidious about how and with whom she\u2019s having sex; she has thousands of followers on her Only-Fans-type insta (although oddly, it doesn\u2019t occur to her to have an actual Only Fans account). Liane also has a poignantly religious sense of her own heroic martyrdom, her ill-treatment at the hands of online haters, men and her appalling mother.<\/p>\n

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\nCannes film festivalFirst-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film
\nFeature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks \u2013 but the director is also bringing some pretty old school social realism, exerting its downward gravitational pull. The result is forthright and fluent and fiercely acted by a newcomer lead who, in the time-honoured style of movies like this, is defiant, vulnerable and front and centre of almost every shot. But it also sometimes treads water in terms of narrative, running out of ideas before the end, and its final ambiguity about an ultimate success that is there to be hallucinated rather than achieved feels anticlimactic.
\nLiane, played by Malou Khebizi, is a 19-year-old with a French and Italian background living in Fr\u00e9jus in the south of France. She was once given up for foster care by her troubled mother but now taken back home and is now in charge of babysitting her kid sister, whom she is busily turning into a mini-me version of her own brassy, sexualised image. Liane shoplifts and sells the stolen goods \u2013 which has paid for her breast-implant surgery and she has also had her lips done. She hangs out with her friends, getting drunk, but is fastidious about how and with whom she\u2019s having sex; she has thousands of followers on her Only-Fans-type insta (although oddly, it doesn\u2019t occur to her to have an actual Only Fans account). Liane also has a poignantly religious sense of her own heroic martyrdom, her ill-treatment at the hands of online haters, men and her appalling mother. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cannes film festivalFirst-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks \u2013 but the director is also bringing some …<\/p>\n

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