Young & Beautiful Reviews

Marine Vacth is, in fact, young and beautiful. She gives us a lot with minimal dialogue. Sadly the structure of the film is plain and I didn't really get anything new out of it, even if I consider myself entertained in the end.

Even though I'm not a huge fan, since François Ozon is still a really interesting director, I was quite eager to check this movie. Well, like most of the movies from this director, it left me equally intrigued and disappointed. Indeed, the whole thing definitely had some potential but I thought he once again delivered something rather half-baked. The main issue I had was probably with the main character. I won’t blame Marine Vacth, she was really gorgeous and mesmerizing to look at and she delivered a decent performance but the approach chosen by Ozon concerning this girl was rather frustrating in my opinion. It's not that I wanted a clear explanation about her actions, it was more the fact that her mind was such a mystery, like all the other characters who try to have any kind of communication with her, you never get to know her at all so it was rather difficult to really care about what she was going through. The other thing that bothered me is that this depiction of the prostitution completely removed all the ugly stuff inherent to this business and what remained was some kind of glamorized vision on the subject and, as a result, it was hard to take it really seriously. On the other hand, you might argue that, because of the way she looked, she was more a high-end escort and, in this case, my last complaint might be then invalid. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you're interested in François Ozon's work. 

It is a French drama directed by 'In the House' director which chronicles a teenage girl's sexual exploration. A plain story, but well transformed into a movie with good cast and performances.

The subject briefs how a girl can slip away from her actual goal when life filled with loneliness. Sometimes within the family, the negligence of parents puts their children pick wrong path. As the result they move on the way they encounter in a life junction. In such style this movie travels where a girl from this story begin to engage in sexual activities which makes feel her emptiness go away apart from her good companion, her little brother.

With the help of todays technology it is not hard to find the desired one and to conceal from others. It is nothing like the few decades ago, now, the young people can cleanly cover up the wrongdoing from their parents. So this movie can be useful to study about the teenager character behaviours.

Very clever performance by character Isabelle. Her seductive facial look makes men stick firm with the movie till the end. It had no puzzle to solve like the director's earlier movie, but used teenager to portray her issues in four seasons. As the change of one season to another kind of failed to transform character together which made tough to understand.

Bringing up emotions and family to solve the final portion was a nice patch. Overall, the simple concept was illustrated in a satisfactory manner. The 'Young & Beautiful' was neither about a nymphomaniac nor prostitution, but kind of exploiting both to depict how a modern day secret societal system work.

7.5