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AKA: Paradis Perdu
Year: 2012
Directed by: Eve Deboise
Starring: Pauline Etienne (Lucie), Olivier Rabourdin (Hugo), Florence Thomassin (Mother), Ouassini Embarek (Hakim)
Country: France, European Cinema
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 01:29:02
Genres: Captivity, Incest, Old-Young, Family
Plot – Spoilers:
Hugo and daughter Lucie live on an idyllic farmland where he runs a nursery. It isn’t very profitable but the two lead a rural life where the days involve a lot of manual hard work and the nights usually mean crashing into bed.
Lucie who has quit school but plans on taking her exams, doesn’t have too much time to be bored in between the housework, odd farm jobs and weekly trips selling flowers. Her mother who left a year back is now back though with unclear intentions.
The father-daughter duo have pretty much only each other for human contact apart from sparse visits from a neighbour who is Lucie’s driving instructor. There’s also Hakim, a Moroccan illegal, working on the farm, whose fear of the law Hugo exploits, while Lucie looks on sympathetically. Hakim spends his evenings tired, smoking and to himself.
The mother arriving fills Hugo with insecurity and he tries to persuade her to leave without meeting Lucie. Lucie meanwhile is growing more conscious about her body and all these characters, phases and situations culminate in a heady climax.
Random Thoughts (Massive Spoilers):
The incest is unclear, though hinted at. It’s a bit weird that father and daughter sit naked by the stream even though there is a distance. If an incestuous angle exists, it’s probably a one-off thing that happened like when Hugo gets too close for comfort while dancing with Lucie on his birthday. Lucie also hints at having gotten physical with Hugo to her mother, and though the latter tries to sidestep it, it probably explains why she sets fire to the place after initially promising to take Lucie away – probably felt a certain jealousy and resignation to the father-daughter bond that had no place for her return. She probably got that wrong, if Lucie running at the end is symbolic of an escape from something she wasn’t comfortable with.
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I thought the movie was a bit slow and it seemed to leave a lot of unanswered questions. I suppose Hugo got away with kidnapping her because in the she burned the place down and neither would want to get the authorities involved.
It’s hard to believe that Pauline Etienne (Lucie) was 23 years old when she made this film. She looks a lot younger.
It’s also hard to believe that Hugo had managed to hook up with the mother in the first place. She seemed to be out of his league.
The movie still left on an ambiguous note as if the mother was waiting for her who rode on a bicycle without her purse or handbag. We also do not get to see the father’s reaction once he realizes his own daughter the one who let the mother out.
It made my dick cry ……
An interesting film and certainly the women were not hard on the eyes.
This film doesn’t seem to get too much attention on here. It’s another sad tale of misery and hardship brought about by disintegrating relationships. It held my interest throughout. Florence Thomassin, who portrays Sonia, Lucie’s mother, is a wonderful actress who has been in a ton of movies and is drop dead beautiful. A thought provoking film that is ultimately depressing. 4 stars. It is worthy of more attention than it receives.
Overall, not a bad movie to pass the time. Although, I couldn’t help but comment that I really do adore and admire Lucie’s feet. It’s as pretty as she is.