
That Which Does Not Kill

Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a boy she knows. It all happens very quickly, she does not defend herself. It is in 2013, after a screening of her first film, that Alexe Poukine meets her: a woman of her age who shares with her something that happened nine years before and that she does not know what to do with.
[Docsbarna] Intellectualizing sexual abuse can be dangerous. Because it gives a sense of unreality that heals the wound. The parallel stories that are being provoked by the original text are more interesting than the original text. And this succession of interviews is more effective in the first thirty minutes than in the rest of the film.