Love Like Poison
(2010)
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Love Like Poison
(2010)
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Clara Augarde | ... |
Anna Falguères
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Lio | ... |
Jeanne Falguères
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Michel Galabru | ... |
Jean Falguères
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Stefano Cassetti | ... |
Père François
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Thierry Neuvic | ... |
Paul Falguères
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Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil | ... |
Pierre
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Philippe Duclos | ... |
L'évêque
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Françoise Navarro | ... |
La grand-mère
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François Bernard | ... |
Le grand-père
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Catherine Riaux | ... |
Louise
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Margaux Louineau | ... |
Sabine
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Huguette Robert | ... |
Caroline
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Marie-Françoise Abiven | ... |
Grand-mère Pierre
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Jean-Claude Favennec | ... |
Docteur
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Gwénola Vigouroux | ... |
Catéchiste
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Anna a young teenager comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else? Written by Les films du Bélier
In 'Love Like Poison', a schoolgirl returns home from boarding school, to face her depressed mother (who advises her, not to never doubt her beauty but rather, that when she doubts her beauty, never to tell a man!), her peripatetic father, a boy who fancies her, her ailing grandfather (who might do the same), and the local parish priest. It's not badly done, but there doesn't seem much point to the story: life (and death) happens, but nothing seems more dramatic or pointed than any particular sequence of real life where you can't quite get everything you want. The use of music in the soundtrack is also overdone, as it seems to be punching at a higher emotional weight than the underlying film. This is not a long film, but it feels more like opening scenes from a real story, over-extended, than a movie in itself.