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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
12A | | Cast
Mathilda Paradeiser
Linda Molin
Isabella Lindquist. | | Directors
Lisa Aschan. | | Screenwriters
Lisa Aschan
Josefine Adolfsson. | | Running Time
83 minutes |
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She Monkeys
Horsing around
Plot
Trying out for a new team, teenager equestrian rider Emma (Paradeiser) falls under the spell of self-assured Cassandra (Molin). Their relationship quickly becomes much more complex than Emma is prepared for... Review
Lisa Aschan's sometimes sluggish debut has already accrued a slew of awards on the international circuit. It’s an occasionally improvised, sometimes subversive coming-of-age drama focusing on Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) and her precocious seven year-old sister, Sara (Isabella Lindquist, an exercise in light relief). Emma tries out for the voltige team at the local riding stables and strikes up a relationship with Cassandra (Linda Molin) who is both blonde and a bombshell. Which is where the narrative wheels fall off. What follows is a series of set-pieces — tentative, drunken kisses, a father tickling his daughter’s stomach, a girl destroying her horse figurine — that either feel disquieting or threatening, but fail to harry along this detached meditation on youthful longing.
Verdict
A disjointed but refreshingly subversive character drama.
Reviewed by Philip Wilding
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