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The Five Devils

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Sally Dramé

Swala Emati

Moustapha Mbengue

Daphné Patakia

Patrick Bouchitey

Hugo Dillon

Antonia Buresi

Noée Abita

Charlotte Bon Bornier

Alain Guillot

Stéphanie Lhorset

Inès Helouin

Merwan Rim

Habib Rharbaoui

Jade Kleine

Julien Reneaut

Clara Borne

Johara Telli

Anaïs Estival

Alexandra Fernandes

Leïa Giraud

Eva Queiros

Margot Raynaud

Eloah Louisjuste

Paul Guilhaume

Florencia Di Concilio

Léa Mysius

Fanny Yvonnet

Marion Chevance

Laura Caselli

François Guignard

Adèle Tvrdy

Xavier Sylvestre-Bru

Mathilde Poncet

Florian Berthellot

Nader Chalhoub

Marina Klimoff

Morgane Aubert-Bourdon

Rachel Raoult

Elodie Roy

Alice Pin

Laure Ménégale

Judith Chalier

Esther Mysius

Nathan Mysius

Mathieu Reymond

David Labrousse

Estelle Tolstoukine

Patrick Armisen

Pierre Cohen

Céleste Ougier

Camille Simien

Sarah Billand

Caroline Vandenbussche

Christine Duchier

Harold Hennequin

Cyrille Hubert

Justine Roussillon

Grégory Graziani

Jane Mazeron

Thomas Weyland

Christophe Bousquet

Valentine De Garidel

Vathana Kang

Guillaume Clément

Jules Aubert

Jean-Louis Livi

Alice Robert

Luce Jalbert

Yolande Decarsin

Benoît Jolivet

Charlotte Caussarieu

Peyo Jolivet

Florian Penot

Damien Cabries

Thibault Deboaisne

Nathanaël Rémond

Alicia Cadot

Victor Tsaconas

Thomas Ducos

Marc Sausset

Rémy Bertelli

Anthony Lyant

Clément Germain

Marie Loustalot

Jules Bertier

Baptiste Quemener

Victor Praud

Anne-Sophie Delseries

Guillaume Marien

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"Vicky" (Sally Dramé) lives with her school swimming coach mother "Joanne" (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and fireman father "Jimmy" (Moustapha Mbengue). Despite a fair degree of quite nasty teasing from her schoolmates, she is a happy enough child who has an astonishing gift. She has the most acute sense of smell. She can differentiate between natural and man-made scents - she can even sniff her mother out in the woods, at a distance, amongst all the other fragrances. The appearance of her aunt "Julia" (Swala Emati) causes upset though. She has just been released from prison and her arrival at their home seems to unleash in the young girl an enhanced set of powers that allows her to see into the past, as if she were a bystander, and slowly a story of lust, love and violence is revealed. It's an intriguing premiss, but somehow it just never really stays focussed long enough to become interesting. Some of the characters - especially the young Dramé are engaging enough, but the story itself is weak and underwhelming. It's not that it is boring, it isn't: it's that for too long nothing happens and then when something does, it is usually seen through the eyes of a child far too innocent to fully appreciate (I hope) what she is witness too. There is plenty of sexual fluidity here, and even a bit of tragedy at the end, but for the most part it's a jigsaw puzzle of a film with too many pieces that either don't fit or don't matter. It kills one hundred minutes easily enough, but I doubt I will ever watch it again.

Léa Mysius has created a fascinating study here in The Five Devils. It reminds me a lot of Kubrick's horror, The Shining. Both films revolve around a protagonist that is a child gifted with the "Shining", the gift of "seeing" what others do not. The common thread is that the gift is really a metaphor for how much adults underestimate what a child sees, hears, and understands.

Mysius uses magic surrealism as the vehicle for her exposition. It's quite charming and exciting. It's very well done and worth the accolades, even though I felt the script had just a few faults that took me away from complete enjoyment.

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Adèle Exarchopoulos

Sally Dramé

Swala Emati

Moustapha Mbengue

Daphné Patakia

Patrick Bouchitey

Hugo Dillon

Antonia Buresi

Noée Abita

Charlotte Bon Bornier

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