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Jeune & Jolie

  • Status: Released
  • 21-08-2013
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Score: 6.502
  • Vote count: 1296

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.

Marine Vacth

Isabelle

Géraldine Pailhas

Sylvie

Charlotte Rampling

Alice

Frédéric Pierrot

Patrick

Nathalie Richard

Véro

Johan Leysen

Georges

Fantin Ravat

Victor

Laurent Delbecque

Alex

Djédjé Apali

Peter

Lucas Prisor

Felix

Jeanne Ruff

Claire

Carole Franck

La policière

Olivier Desautel

Le policier

Serge Hefez

Le psychiatre

Akéla Sari

Mouna

Nathan N'Diaye

Nicolas

Anne-Elina N'Diaye

Lucie

Stefano Cassetti

L'homme de l'hôtel

Patrick Bonnel

L'homme de la Mercedes

Gurvan Cloatre

Le garçon d'hôtel

Roland David

L'homme du métro

Rachel Khan

La laborantine

Caroline Breton

La fille de Georges

Iliana Zabeth

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Charlotte-Victoire Legrain

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Jules Gruault

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Lilian Minas

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Jules Bourbon

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Ugo Bokhobza

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Anaïs Clergeau

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Achille Couderc

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Tess Girault de Castilla

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Victor Le Dauphin

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Coline Mortier

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Thaïs Becq de Fouquières

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Mathilde Bleu

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Victor Boulanger

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Rosalie Charrier

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Violette Deffontaines

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Nassim Gouaini

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Paul Hadji Lazaro

Élève du lycée Henri IV

François Haueter

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Roxane Khodabandehlou

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Camille Lemoine

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Zoé Lizot

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Alice Paulet

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Marie Sebillotte

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Vincent Silhol

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Camille Tilak

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Félicie Cazaubon

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Pauline Legrand

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Tom Le Squer

Élève du lycée Henri IV

Thomas Brazete

Élève du lycée Henri IV

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“Isabelle” (Marine Vacth) has been chatting with her younger brother “Victor” (Fantin Ravat) about her losing her virginity. It looks like it’s “Felix” (Lucas Prisor) whom she’s lined up and he duly obliges. He’s not just after sex, though, he wants to engage with her - but she has got what she wanted from him, and now heads to the city where she embarks on a career at €300 an head. She has no real interest in these older men, nor even in the sex - it’s the preamble and the memories that she likes. When one of her regulars has the ultimate orgasm, she has to flee before the police begin to investigate. They are not daft, and are quickly at her door where she, still seventeen, has to explain to her mother just where she got a great wad of Euros from. Furious, she (Géraldine Pailhas) insists that she see a therapist, but might she just be better off with a lad her own age like “Alex” (Laurent Delbecque) or, when she inserts her secret SIM into her phone and a number comes up, might she just go back to her old habits? What this doesn't try to explain is what triggered her behaviour. Her sex with “Felix” was perfectly consensual, if a little perfunctory, so what drove her to hook up with a collection of wealthy older gents? “Isabelle”, as a character, just isn’t developed at all here and so watching her inflagrante delicto with some random men just came across as some softly photographed porn. Vacth delivers confidently, but I couldn’t quite fathom the dynamic between her and her brother, and though she is quite convincing when we see her, Pailhas hasn’t really enough until the last twenty minutes to get her teeth into. It’s always good to see Charlotte Rampling on screen, and her presence towards the end gives us a slightly quirky sense of closure, but I was underwhelmed by this slightly repetitious drama.