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Léora Barbara, Melissa Rodrigues, Karole Rocher, Benjamin Biolay, Guillaume Depardieu

A street-smart girl is given a crash course in how the other half lives in this bittersweet comedy from writer and director Sylvie Verheyde. Eleven year old Stella (Leora Barbara) is the daughter of R... read more read more...oselyne (Karole Rocher), a currently single mother who runs a tavern in a working-class neighborhood in Paris. Stella is used to helping out her mom at work and knows a lot more about football, mixing drinks and what's popular on the jukebox than nearly any girl her age. But none of this proves very helpful to Stella when to her surprise she's transferred to a school in one of the city's mot upscale communities. Stella is a thorough misfit at the school and doesn't do especially well in her classes; eventually she makes friends with Gladys (Melissa Rodrigues), the smartest girl in her class, who introduces Stella to the world of great literature. Stella finds that books teach her some valuable lessons about how to deal with others, but she's not sure how much her new studies will help her in the real world; Stella is also wrestling with a crush on Alain-Bernard (Guillaume Depardieu), a regular at the bar and a good friend of her mother who is a font of information that shouldn't be useful to an average 11-year-old. Stella was an official selection at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Sylvie Verheyde

Release Date: November 12, 2008

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  • 5oclockcoffee
    January 15, 2010
    5oclockcoffee
    Maybe a modern "Les quatre cents coups". The image of "the France of today".

    * Stella´s jacket (an the scene where´s walking in a sort of mall, while the teachers decide if she will be approved or not) reminded me of Christiane F. Probably an indirect influence/reference.

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  • jimbotender
    July 20, 2009
    jimbotender
    Have we seen it before?It's possible.All of a sudden,this burst of outlandish situations is what makes little Stella a diverse character on-screen,like she has jumped from an Andersen fairytale engulfed with the most satirical elements from Nouvelle Vague.Barbara is fierce and ro... read moremantic in her acting,in that her inexperience transforms to a lullaby of anarchy.

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Amber Wilkinson
October 4, 2009
Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

This is about the life-changing little things that happen to us all, which makes it all the more affecting. Full Review

Laura Clifford
August 2, 2009
Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews

Verheyde does a terrific job conveying the mind set of an eleven-year-old girl with expert direction of a talented trio of inexperienced actresses. Full Review

Joseph Proimakis
July 22, 2009
Joseph Proimakis, Movies for the Masses

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August 19, 2009
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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