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‘Young Mothers’ Review: An Expert And Soulful Exploration Of Teenage Motherhood From Belgium’s Dardenne Brothers – Cannes Film Festival
‘Young Mothers’ review: An expert and soulful exploration of teenage motherhood from Belgium’s Dardenne brothers – Cannes Film Festival
Wound into Jessica’s story is that of Perla (Lucie Laruelle), who rushes with her baby to meet her boyfriend Robin (Gunter Duret) the day he is released after two months in juvenile detention. One moment, a young mother is earnestly learning how to give her baby a bath; the next, she has disappeared for three days, drawn back into the chaos (or squalor) that, for her, has the prickly, easy familiarity of Brer Rabbit’s briar patch. If the mix of five stories sounds schematic, it’s true that Young Mothers has the faint flavor of a social policy dossier, with Jessica and her fellow inmates as case studies.
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