Small communities, Catholicism and burgeoning sexuality - it’s a classic, some might say over-familiar, combination in French debut features. But it’s rarely carried off with such confidence and ...

Anna and her mother are ostensibly committed Catholics, and the film deals with the run-up to Anna’s Confirmation. Ahead of the solemn ceremony - a rite of passage which sees her recognised as an ...

Cannes 2011 is in full swing and it seems rather odd to post this clip from a movie which screened at the festival back in 2010 but it really shows how long some of these movies take to be seen in the ...

ANNA IS A blossoming 14-year-old suffering through an awkward summer in Brittany. Unwanted change is in the air: mum and dad are splitting up over religious differences; morbidly obese granddad is ...

Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the ...

A highly acclaimed film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, Love Like Poison is the sum of two stunning debuts: that of 31-year-old director Katell Quillevere and her teenage lead actress, Clara ...

Love like Poison — Film Review Screened last May at Cannes in the Directors Fortnight, Katell Quillevere's debut feature "Love Like Poison" about a pre-adolescent's struggles with the competing ...

Taking its French title – Un Poison Violent — from a Serge Gainsbourg song, the feature debut of Abidjan-born director Katell Quillévéré is a beguiling coming-of-age drama about a 14 year-old girl, ...

Love Like Poison film review and trailer Newcomer Clara Augarde proves to be a real find in Love Like Poison, a severe coming of age drama set in the Breton countryside. Add us as preferred source ...

You’d be hard pushed to find a more honest and tender portrayal of early adolescence than first time director Katell Quillévéré’s coming of age film Love Like Poison. Quillévéré approaches her subject ...

Small in scale but beautifully written, extremely well-played and sensually lensed, “Love Like Poison,” from first-time French helmer Katell Quillevere, centers on a middle-class 14-year-old in the ...

The French title of Katell Quillévéré's sensitive directorial debut is Un poison violent, the title of a Serge Gainsbourg song describing the turbulence of love. Here it is experienced by Anna (an ...