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LOL (2009) by Lisa Azuelos, with Sophie Marceau
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The title "LOL" stands for "Laughing Out Loud," (which means "mort de rire" in French) language MSN. It is also Lola’s nickname , Anne’ daughter .
Summary :
Lola is a schoolgirl. At the beginning of the schoolyear, she learns that her boyfriend Arthur has an affair. She invents a story that she has an affair with someone else during the holidays. She breaks up with Arthur and he insults her.
Arthur’s best friend , Maël, falls in love with Lola and they go out together, until Lola believes that Maël has an affair with Isabelle.
At home, it is the same: there is a lot of tension with her mother. One day, she is upset by the chaos of Lola’s bedroom, starts throwing all the stuffs of her daughter on the floor and there she finds her diary and she reads it. After this event, a big argument
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breaks out and Lola goes to her father’s.
Lola quickly reconciles with her mother and with Maël during the trip to England.
Film critic :
I loved this film because we do not get bored: we want to know more. I think all teenagers are not like those of the film and it is very exaggerated. Drugs are everywhere and alcohol. When parents see this film they might believe that teenagers are like that, but it is really not the case for everyone!
This film has some parallels with “la Boom”: relationship between parents and children, romantic relationships of parents and also children.
But there is a difference of age between the group of friends of both films: in “La boom”, they are in highschool whereas in LOL, they go to grammarschool, so we can not really compare everything.
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La Boum (1980) by Claude Pinoteau with Sophie Marceau
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Synopsis :
Vic's family is an ordinary family, her father is a dentist and her mother creates comics. Vic is struggling to talk to her parents because they never have time. She has her first party and falls in love with Mathieu. Vic confides to his great grandmother. Vic's mother learns that her husband has a mistress (Vanessa). The two adults decide to separate, so do Vic and Mathieu.
Vic's mother also has an affair with the
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German teacher of her daughter.
Finally Vic's parents are reconciled and it is the same for Vic and Mathieu. For her birthday, she can hold her first party at her grandmother’s.
Film critic:
We loved this film even though it does not correspond to our generation (different music, dress fashioned, the way children talk to them), but it has many common points with us. The complicity of Vic with her grandmother is superb.
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SOPHIE MARCEAU
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Sophie Marceau was born on 17 November 1966 in Paris, her real name is Sophie Maupu. Her father is a truck driver and her mother holds a brewery, her parents split up when she was 9 years old.
She began her career as an actress in 1980 with the film” La Boum” Claude Pinoteau, she was only 14 years old. This film is a huge success, that’s why the director will follow up two years later, and Sophie Marceau will win the César of the most promising actress.
She then married with Andrzej Zulawski, who is a film director. Meeting when she acts in the film “L’amour braque” directed by Andrzej Zulawski. He is 26 years older than Sophie Marceau. She will give him a son on 24 July 1995 (Vincent).
She also had a daughter on 13 June 2002 (Juliette) with Jim Lemley.
She also played in “Fanfan” by Alexandre Jardin in 1993, “La Fille de d'Artagnan” by Bertrand Tavernier in 1994, and in “The World is Not Enough “in 1999, Michael Apted. Recently, she played with Dany Boon in “the other side of the bed” and Pascale Pouzadoux in”LOL” by Lisa Azuelos.
But she is also a singer, painter, director and writer.
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| Sophie Marceau in "Braveheart" |
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by Florian Léon and Thibault Pigeanne 3E
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Links to the other film reviews
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04/24/09 - Dominique Saint-Hilaire
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