Fresh
Withholding basic expository material, and unpredictably restless in its focus, Innocence both rivets and challenges emotional engagement.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Innocence
The end of innocence... the beginning of life.
2005 · 2h 1m · R
Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Overview
At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.
Director and cast
- Lucile Hadžihalilović Director
- Zoé Auclair as Iris
- Lea Bridarolli as Alice
- Bérangère Haubruge as Bianca
- Marion Cotillard as Mademoiselle Eva
- Hélène de Fougerolles as Mademoiselle Edith
- Olga Peytavi-Müller as Laura
- Alisson Lalieux as Selma
- Anna Palomo-Díaz as Nadja
- Astrid Homme as Rose
- Joséphine Van Wambeke as Vera
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hadzihalilovic has arrived as a director to reckon with.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh
Innocence is full of charm and strangeness -- and a sense that childhood is a place of incredible terrors and fleeting joys, of rapt innocence and fatal experience.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
I can't recommend this film to my readers, because I don't happen to trust its motives.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Innocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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