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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context. |
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A poverty-stricken Belgian girl tries to find and keep a
job while watching over her alcoholic mother. With Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione,
Anne Yernaux and Olivier Gourmet. In French with English subtitles. [1:34]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Some sexual innuendo. Implied fellatio (we see a man buckling
his pants while a woman sits in a chair next to him). We see a girl's underwear as
she's wrestling on the ground and we see a girl's bare midriff a couple of
times.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man slips into a muddy pond and nearly drowns before he
is rescued (we hear him yelling for help); also, a girl is pushed into a muddy pond and
manages to pull herself out. Many scuffles between various people, people chase one
another on foot (one person is chased by someone on a moped), a man grabs a man's
throat, a man grabs a girl's collar and shoves her, a girl tackles a woman, a girl
throws stones at a man and a man tackles a girl and they wrestle on the ground a bit.
Police officers pick up a girl by the arms and legs and carry her as she struggles against
them. A girl smashes a bottle of liquor. A girl carries an unconscious, drunken woman.
PROFANITY 5 - In subtitles, we see five F-words and a few scatological
references. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, attempted suicide,
deception, desperation, dysfunctional families.
MESSAGES - When living hand-to-mouth, a person will do anything to survive;
sometimes the difficulties of life are too much to bear.
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A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period. While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process. |
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