(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, 19 SEPTEMBER - SuzanneLindon's sixteen springs enchant and disturb Toronto: "Spring Blossom" (original title "Seize Printemps") by the very young French director was presented at the International Film Festival.
The disarming and at the same time problematic love story between a sixteen-year-old Parisian named Suzanne like her and a man twenty years older had been selected for the Cannes Film Festival but the Coronavirus pandemic had forced the postponement.
"It is a film that raises many questions", commented the "Hollywood Reporter", noting that the fact that Lindon plays the part of the protagonist, a high school student who is intelligent but uncomfortable with her peers but who in the realm of life is already twenty. years adds a further complication to a potentially controversial subject: if not in France where the age of consent is 15, certainly in North America and in a Hollywood at the fore with the #MeToo scandals.
"I wrote the script five years ago, the summer before high school. I didn't have many friends, my classmates bored me and I dreamed of falling in love with a misfit like me, a little older but who was at the same point as me. in life ", explained the director-actress who has already played very young in the French TV series" Dix pour cent "(" Call MyAgent ") and is the daughter of two famous actors, Vincent Lindon (awarded at Cannes for" The Law of the Market ") and SandrineKiberlain (" Les Patriotes ").
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