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Ponette [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Victoire Thivisol
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Léopoldine Serre, Marie Trintignant
  • Directors: Jacques Doillon
  • Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Fox Lorber
  • DVD Release Date: 26 May 1998
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 1572522747
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 86,143 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Fresh, attentive and emotionally shattering, the French film Ponette is an attempt to enter the world of a 4-year-old girl whose mother has just been killed in a car accident on one of the winding roads in the mountainous countryside near Lyon. Played by podgy, sad-eyed Victoire Thivisol (winner of a controversial but perfectly understandable Best Actress award at the 1996 Venice Film Festival), Ponette turns her grief into something else, something more childish and yet more mature. Convinced that her mother has been visiting her in her dreams, and that some day she will return in flesh and blood, Ponette invents a religion for herself with the spectre of her mother at its centre.

By keeping his camera eye level with his young actors (who include Matiaz Bureau Caton and Delphine Schiltz as Ponette's know-it-all cousins) and miking the children so closely that their voices have the presence and authority of grown-up speech, director Jacques Doillon taps directly into the private world of childhood. The rolling landscape that extends for Elysian miles behind the characters gradually shifts from green to brown over the course of Ponette, suggesting the presence of death in life, and also the eternal cycle of the seasons that will allow life and love to return. --Dave Kehr

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely mesmerising, 4 April 2001
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This review is from: Ponette [VHS] [1998] (VHS Tape)
Jurors at the Venice Film Festival were so stunned by this little girl's performance that they gave her best actress award. It's hard to believe it's not a documentary. How it's not better known, I don't understand. I defy anyone to watch this film and be dry-eyed at the end of it. See it!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Grief and spirituality from a child's point of view--amazing, 16 Jun 2004
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This is quite an amazing film; the lead actress is Victoire Thivosol ("Chocolat"--Anouk) who gives an award-winning performance at the tender age of 4 years old. She plays Ponette, the young daughter of a woman killed in an auto accident. Her father, unable to deal well with the loss himself, leaves Ponette at an aunt's and ultimately at a children's school. During the school days and the weekends with her cousins, Ponette deals with the horrendous loss. She seeks her own form of belief, and is bumped around by all the other children, who good-naturedly or not try to share their own beliefs and magic gestures to make sense of the world.

The ending doesn't please everyone but I liked it, especially for the cameo role played by the late Marie Trintignant. The camera angle is interesting throughout--tight and close and at child-level. We see the world up close and at Ponette's viewpoint, adding to the feeling of being overwhelmed and buffeted by life.

This film is well-deserving of the many awards it received and Victoire Thivisol is nothing short of amazing. Definitely see this one.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exellent movie, 18 April 2000
This review is from: Ponette [VHS] [1998] (VHS Tape)
One of my best movies ever - anyone who lost his /her mother, should see this movie! A must see movie for all the motherless people! Sweet, sad, and positive looking movie! Ponette is a lovable child and you don't even think she is acting! Exellent performance by her!
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