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‘September Says’ Review: Oddball Teenage Sisters Bonded By Bullying In Ariane Labed’s Directing Debut – Cannes Film Festival
September Says features a sense of a closed circle of unknowable femininity between two teen sisters in the directing debut of actress Ariane Labed
There is something of that sense of a closed circle of unknowable femininity between the two teenage girls in September Says, the first film to be directed by Greek Weird Wave actor Ariane Labed, based on the 2020 novel Sisters by Daisy Johnson and set between England and Ireland. There are no scenes of bloody telekinesis – that would be very counter to Labed’s arch, deliberately stilted narrative style – but there is a sense of epochal change when July starts getting text messages she wants to hide from her sister, even more so when she agrees to go out with a boy she meets on the beach on holiday in a gray Irish seaside town. Title: September Says Festival: Cannes(Un Certain Regard) Sales Agent: The Match Factory Director-screenwriter: Ariane Labed Cast: Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar Running time: 1 hr 38 min
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