

An Easy Girl

Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.
This film starts our looking more amateurish than it ends. It's definitely an imitation, but, after it spends its initial thrust emulating a certain historical cinematic style, I realized that it was actually forming a compelling narrative involving Naïma's character (and Phillippe's). I didn't expect to stay interested, or, honestly, even necessarily pay attention to the main story instead of just Zahia's breasts, but I found myself quite invested in the relationship between Naïma and Phillippe, and Naïma's aspirations, by the end.
I really didn't expect them to come right out and take a jab at Zahia's botched facial "enhancements", even if the film is ostensibly centered around her playing herself as a Cannes yacht girl, but they did just that.
Also, holy shit, Frenchies still are fucking smoke stacks. I can't imagine being around an entire table of people ripping draws on cigarettes, two decades into the 21st century. I had to deal with that while living with trashy people (including family) in my teens and twenties, and I absolutely would not tolerate that kind of behavior as an adult. Does no one in France have allergies? It's like going back a century, and not at all in a good way.