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‘Wild Diamond’ Review: Agathe Reidinger’s Drama About a 19-Year-Old Girl in Thrall to the False Gods of Social Media and Reality TV Announces the Arrival of a Major Filmmaker
Malou Khebizi plays the heroine, lost in the dreams of the deluded new fame culture, in a drama that announces the arrival of a major filmmaker.
The new fame, the lusty fickle kind bred by social media, is at the center of “ Wild Diamond,” a startlingly bold and true French drama that premiered today at Cannes. Liane’s entire existence is driven by her compulsion to connect with the up-from-nowhere apparatus of fame, the kind that transforms people on Instagram and TikTok — and, the subject of “Wild Diamond,” reality TV — into overnight spangly vessels of adoration. She was impressed by the exhibitionism of Liane’s social-media posts, and asks her to come in and interview for a spot on “Miracle Island,” a reality show about 15 pretty young people living together in a beach house.
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