Miguel Neto
Jeune & Jolie is the direction the good director French , François Ozon , the cast includes Marine Vatch that great , his character is well developed, the dramatic scenes with Marine Vatch works well , the cast still has Géraldine Pailhas , Fréderic Pierrot , Charlotte Rampling , etc., the characters are interesting , has a mild pace , the film is not enough to give boredom , have a good time , others a little unnecessary moments , François Ozon at times lose a little hand , more recovers towards the end, the soundtrack is reasonable , the picture is good , the script is reasonable too, has plenty of errors , times are +18 interesting has explicit nudity , Jeune & Jolie is a cool movie , not a film that enters the best in France more is watchable , with a great performance of Marine Vatch and a direction that even with slide is well controlled by François Ozon . Note 7.3
John Osburn
You could sum up much of the French director François Ozon's work as being about young people discovering sex and portraying it frankly. So it is not surprising if a capsule description of an Ozon film makes it sound titillating and exploitive. SWIMMING POOL, his most seen work in the U.S., told the story of a lush adolescent spending the summer by a backyard pool. This sounds, and, up to a point, is, prurient. But Ozon is a master of suspense, not of danger as it approaches, but of what he is really getting at. For all the skin in the game of SWIMMING POOL, it turned out to be a smart little movie about the literary imagination and the social construction of attractiveness. It was, in effect, a thematic thriller.His current work chronicles the life of a gorgeous teenager who moonlights as a call girl. The promoters of YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL make sure you know this, and Ozon is aware that it is effective as cinema to start off by giving you just enough of what you expect to draw you in. It opens with the teen described in ... Read more at http://osburnt.com/young-and-beautiful/
jcnsoflorida
Nytimes describes director Ozon's oeuvre as uneven and, while I agree, this is one of his better outings. It's slowish and without much drama but I believe all that's intentional. One of the many fascinating things about Jeune & jolie, for me, is how clearly it is not aimed at American auds, who would certainly expect more drama from the material Almost comically absent from J & j is antihero Isabelle's school life. She attends a good Paris secondary school but we never see her study. Maybe she doesn't need to. In any case, the film is obviously not about her formal education. Others have mentioned Belle de Jour. Yes! B j (the film) is almost 50 years old, so why not another take? Look at how they are alike and different. No surrealism in this latter-day version but the languidness is purposeful. Why? Ozon wrote and directed, and if we put aside our expectations and constantly wonder why he makes the choices he makes here, we won't get many answers. But we do have an understated film --IsaBelle de Jour?-- that is not easy to dismiss. Underrated, too.
olastensson13
The 17-year-old Isabelle goes from virginity to prostitution very fast. It's hard to explain why, because this film doesn't give any clues. If you try to read the movie in the anglo-saxon way, you can't understand its language. Not the French, the pictures.Being used to another kind of narrating, you could almost find this heartless. No reactions, no disgust, indifference, which also make you lose interest in some way.The only kind of somewhat foreseeable actions come from the environment, but that fight is quite uneven and fades away. So what is there to say?
