Young and Beautiful

Young and Beautiful is a French drama film directed by François Ozon. The film follows a young girl named Isabelle, on vacation with her family in France. While there she meets a German boy and decides to lose her virginity with him. Back in France, the experience leaves her curious about her sexuality, so she starts working as a call girl.

Director François Ozon wanted to capture a different view of adolescent life not often represented in film. “The film is about what it feels like to be seventeen and experiencing the transformation of one’s body. Adolescence is often idealized in cinema. For me it was a painful period of complicated transition and I’m not nostalgic about it. I didn’t want to depict adolescence merely as an emotional time but also and above all as a hormonal one. Our bodies go through intense physiological changes, and yet we feel kind of numb. So we assault our bodies in order to feel, we test our limits physically. The theme of prostitution provides a way to highlight this, to illustrate the questions of identity and sexuality raised by adolescence.”

Young and Beautiful is rated 18A.

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