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ADRIFT is the enchanting and moving tale of a teenage girl's coming of age. Young, beautiful and falling in love for the fist time, Fillipa has a life other kids only dream of. But when her seemingly perfect father is begins an affair, her life is turned upside down. With a stunning cast including Vincent Cassel (Mesrine: Killer Instinct), Camilla Belle and introducing Laura Neiva, ADRIFT encompasses the most extreme of emotions. From anguish and betrayal, to love and bliss. With breath-taking cinematography, it's one of the year's most enigmatic and captivating films.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Portuguese ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl steps over the line into adulthood during a summer abroad in this drama from writer and director Heitor Dhalia. Mathias (Vincent Cassel) is a successful French novelist who packs up his family, including wife Clarice (Debora Bloch) and fourteen-year-old daughter Filipa (Laura Neiva), for a few months of vacation at a beachfront house in Brazil. While their surroundings are idyllic, not everyone is happy, and Filipa is aware of the obvious tension between her bickering parents. The contentious relationship between Mathias and Clarice explodes when she learns that he's been unfaithful with the younger and sexier Angela (Camilla Belle). Filipa, who is all too aware of her growing attraction to the opposite sex, is at once disturbed and excited when she spies Mathias and Angela making love, and she decides to act on her desires for a handsome neighbor in his early twenties. A deriva (aka Adrift) was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. ...Adrift (2009) ( À Deriva )
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
IMBD informs me that Adrift is set in the 1980s, but to be honest I would never have guessed given the fact that everyone is in beach wear all the time. Vincent Cassel, speaking apparently fluent Brazilian-Portugese (hats off!) is a writer and doting dad, Débora Bloch a practical but bibulous mum to three kids. Eldest daughter Filipa (Laura Neiva) notices her dad checking out a beautiful American tourist and soon discovers their affair. Filipa is fourteen and just starting to attract the attention of boys, notably the hapless Arthur - looking a bit like George Harrison, you just know he's not going to be the one. As the parents' relationship goes into a decline, what if anything will Filipa do?
There's at least one surprise coming but Filipa losing her virginity isn't it so don't call that a spoiler. We spend most of this ninety minute film waiting to see which of three guys will get the gold; otherwise, the film largely avoids cliches. The great affection between Mathias and his children is a great pleasure to behold and I suppose there's more truth in Filipa's confused behaviour, such as her continued playfulness with her dad even after she's spotted him with another woman. The entire cast are excellent, but maybe it's all just a tad slow and the piano score a bit irritating, as is the photogallery at the end (nice for the cast maybe but for the viewer it smacks of self indulgence).
All in all, a smart film about growing pains and the lies which prop up a relationship over many years. Good to see Cassel being something more than a gangster. Knock fifteen minutes off the running time and some Brazilian music instead of that piano and it would have been perfect.
There's at least one surprise coming but Filipa losing her virginity isn't it so don't call that a spoiler. We spend most of this ninety minute film waiting to see which of three guys will get the gold; otherwise, the film largely avoids cliches. The great affection between Mathias and his children is a great pleasure to behold and I suppose there's more truth in Filipa's confused behaviour, such as her continued playfulness with her dad even after she's spotted him with another woman. The entire cast are excellent, but maybe it's all just a tad slow and the piano score a bit irritating, as is the photogallery at the end (nice for the cast maybe but for the viewer it smacks of self indulgence).
All in all, a smart film about growing pains and the lies which prop up a relationship over many years. Good to see Cassel being something more than a gangster. Knock fifteen minutes off the running time and some Brazilian music instead of that piano and it would have been perfect.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an excellent movie to watch and you cannot help but fall in love with the beach over and over again. Cassel is charismatic and delivers an impressive performance of a father and lover. Some of the shots are beautiful and the pace of the film ticks along nicely whereby at the end your feelings towards the characters have changed. A great story of family and a young girls exploration of adult behaviour. Highly recommend.
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I must admit that I expected more of a story.
I found the film to be shallow, flighty and downright boring.
I think I must have been asleep before it ended.
I found the film to be shallow, flighty and downright boring.
I think I must have been asleep before it ended.
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Stylish and beautiful
Having just seen Black Swan, there are now two films of Vincent Cassell's that are simply stunning to look at. Read more
Published 16 months ago by wolfcub3000
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Adrift is such a sublimely beautiful coming of age story and was definitely one of my films of 2010. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jonathan Haworth
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The plot is refreshingly uncomplicated, the acting naturalistic and unpretentious. Read more
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