The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (2017)
- Original title
- La Petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
- Directed by
- Simon Lavoie
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 23 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A girl raised as a boy by her father and brother in a secluded and oppressive home discovers she is female after her father dies. She ventures into a nearby village and fears outsiders will take away the family home.
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What happens
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (French: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. Lavoie also wrote the screenplay. An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons (Marine Johnson), a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat. The adaptation was filmed in Montreal, Quebec and the Laurentides and shot in black and white. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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