The girl with a bracelet (La fille au bracelet)

Thriller, Trial – France, Belgium – 2019 – 95′
In French with English Subtitles

Synopsis

Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
“I love you” means nothing. Everyone says “I love you”. A young girl called to the witness stand casually drops these disarmingly simple words that are enough to give one chills. That is a recurring feeling throughout this unusually precise courtroom drama, where words and their power are at the center of attention. In this case, the legal proceedings become the ritual of a society putting its own youth on trial.
Locarno Film Fest

Directed by

Stéphane Demoustier

Cast

Melissa Guers, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Fois, Anais Demoustier

Crew

Director: Stéphane Demoustier
Screenplay Stéphane Demoustier (based on the script of ACUSADA by G. Tobal and U. Porra Guardiola) Director of Photography Sylvain Verdet Sound Emmanuel Bonnat, Julie Brenta, Emmanuel de Boissieu Editor Damien Maestraggi Music Carla Pallone

Reactions

“In a way, Demoustier’s film is an inverse coming-of-age film, interested in how a teenage girl develops when the most important years of development are stunted. The final images are telling and tragic.”
— Film Inquiry

“What Demoustier has done here, and done quite successfully, is taken a basic mystery plot, like something out of a TV movie, and used it to ponder how each one of us could react to a ghastly crime, and how we expect others to react in turn.” — Hollywood Reporter

“Retains many of the merits of its source, similarly building an old-fashioned did-she-or-didn’t-she mystery… into a more probing, ambiguity-laced psychological profile.”— Variety 

Awards and Fests

Locarno International Film Festival
El Gouna Film Festival

Virtual Cinema Bookings

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City
State
Start date
Scottsdale Film Festival
Scottsdale
AZ
6/19/2020
Varsity, Davis
Davis
CA
6/19/2020
Laemmle theaters
Los Angeles
CA
6/19/2020
International FIlm Showcase
Orinda
CA
7/3/2020
Sacramento French Film Festival
Sacramento
CA
7/3/2020
Cinema Society of Pebble Creek
San Diego
CA
7/31/2020
Cinema Society
San Diego
CA
7/31/2020
SF Indie Fest
San Francisco
CA
6/19/2020
Rafael@Home
San Rafael
CA
7/10/2020
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater
Colorado Springs
CO
6/19/2020
French Movie Nights
Greenwich
CT
6/12/2020
Avon Cinema
Stamford
CT
6/19/2020
Avalon Cinema
Washington
DC
7/10/2020
Cafe Cinematheque International
Boca Raton
FL
6/26/2020
Fort Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival
Fort Lauderdale
FL
6/19/2020
Corazon Cinema and Cafe
St Augustine
FL
6/19/2020
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago
IL
6/19/2020
Ryder FIlm Series
Bloomington
IN
6/19/2020
Cape Cinema
Dennis
MA
7/24/2020
MFA Boston
Boston
MA
7/9/2020
Colonial Theatre
Bethlehen
NH
7/3/2020
Jean Cocteau Cinema
Santa Fe
NM
6/26/2020
Eclipse Theater
Las Vegas
NV
6/26/2020
North Park Theater
Buffalo
NY
6/19/2020
Jacob Burns Film Center
Pleasantville
NY
7/10/2020
North Bend Theater
North Bend
OR
6/19/2020
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Bryn Mawr
PA
7/21/2020
Philadelphia Film Society
Philadelphia
PA
7/3/2020
Cinema Arts Theatre
Fairfax
VA
6/19/2020
Naro Cinema
Norflok
VA
6/19/2020
Alamo Drafthouse Winchester
Winchester
VA
6/19/2020
Grand Illusion cinema
Seattle
WA
7/3/2020

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