The Innocent
Film details
| Film Title | The Innocent |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 99mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | France |
| Director | Louis Garrel |
| Actors | Louis Garrel, Roschdy Zem, Noémie Merlant, Anouk Grinberg, Jean-Claude Pautot, Yanisse Kebbab, Léa Wiazemsky, Manda Touré, Olga Amelchenko, Romain Blachier, Zorah Ait Maten, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Joséphine Caraballo, Véronique Kapoyan, Florent Masarin |
| Language | French |
| AKA | L'Innocent |
| Showings |
The story centres on Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman who has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The two of them dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship…
The Innocent is a cinephile treat, a nostalgic mash-up of Bob le flambeur (1956) and Bringing up Baby (1938) cast in the mid-70s aesthetic of Night Moves (1975). Riffing on the classics while refusing to slide into pastiche or parody, it plays it straight – unlike its hero – and emerges stronger for it.
★★★★
This film is a slightly slipperier customer than a topline summary would suggest, with tonal shifts that shouldn’t work, but somehow do.
★★★★★
