'La Gradiva' Review: Marine Atlan's Debut Film Explores Teenage Interiority with Empathy and Grace
By
Kate Erbland
10d ago· 8 min readenReview
100/100
Golden Brown
Bagelometer↗
An everything bagel for the brain. Substantive, layered, well-seasoned.
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Summary
A review of Marine Atlan's feature film directorial debut "La Gradiva," which follows teenagers on a class trip and explores their interior lives with empathy and depth. The film is praised for avoiding typical high school movie tropes and treating its young characters as fully realized people.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledMercifully free of typical high school movie tropes, the teenagers at the heart of Atlan's film are fully realized people
Atlan and co-writer Anne Brouillet, allowing their work to reach toward the sublime
takes a simple premise — teenagers on a class trip — and uses it to explore the vast worlds of their individual interiority with insight, empathy, and grace
Mercifully free of typical high school movie tropes, the teenagers at the heart of Marine Atlan’s film are fully realized people.
