★ 5 / 10
This is a rather long drawn out film
isla s
This is a rather long drawn out film, even though its only 1 hour and 45 minutes long. The plot felt slow to build and I thought that it was interesting seeing…
This is a rather long drawn out film, even though its only 1 hour and 45 minutes long. The plot felt slow to build and I thought that it was interesting seeing the strained relationship between the titular character and her adoptive mother but it did seem a bit too bland at times. In a way I respected Alice's typical teenage nature/personality, her wanting to do things her way, although she is a bit obnoxious but there again, its hardly anything brand new to film, to put it mildly. Its a bit of a sobering watch at times, I suppose but it didn't really pull me in as a viewer overall - its not really bad as such, its just...ok-ish. I thought it became a bit more interesting towards the end but it still didn't feel quite substantial enough to maintain my concentration. I wouldn't recommend it as such, no, although it is mildly thought provoking I suppose.
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★ 6 / 10
A painful symbiosis between a mother and her daughter
FrenchEddieFelson
In bulk, Alice T. is ungrateful, insolent, rebellious, lying, idle, carefree, selfish, manipulative, ... Like a basic teen certainly but power 10, like a teen…
In bulk, Alice T. is ungrateful, insolent, rebellious, lying, idle, carefree, selfish, manipulative, ... Like a basic teen certainly but power 10, like a teen boosted to the extreme. Thus, Alice T. might be reduced as an ultra-effective contraceptive pill. Indeed, seeing the eponymous movie will cut you off any desire for fatherhood. For the next ten years... at least! The two main protagonists are female, a mother and her adopted daughter, and the few men are symbolically reduced to the status of anecdotal appearances. On my humble opinion, this female-centric storyline highlights an unconditional mother's love, without any male help (the mother dimension being stronger than the female one, as evidenced by a castrating post-tickle scene, for exemple), and the ineluctable consequences like the ability of a narcissistic teen to terrorize its own parent. As depressing as it may seem, this Romanian movie is quite well done, even if the director strives to concomitantly treat too many subjects: sterility and adoption, divorce, early pregnancy, adolescence, father absence, ...
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