Ma belle gosse

Maden is the antithesis of this summer among family, with a lot of noise around the table. From the top of her 17 years, she begins to need less and less of her father and brothers and now has her little secrets. One of these, a passionate correspondence with a much older man who is in jail, withdraws her from the games and plays, from family life. Shalimar Preuss’ camera is as natural as the environment, merges with it, and takes Maden’s position even further, as she remains almost untouchable in her adolecent solitude. Alone against the world, no one will make her return as long as she doesn’t want to. (M. M.)