{"id":31235,"date":"2020-02-05T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=31235"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:29:18","slug":"the-girl-with-the-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/the-girl-with-the-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl with the Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays - Loris S. Musumeci<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abIf you go to jail, can I have your room?\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

From the light of the sun, to the darkness of a courtroom. June 7, 2016: Lise enjoys beach games, the joys of the sea, under the gaze of a discreet, distant camera. Two gendarmes arrive. The young girl leaves with them. And so begins the turmoil of an adolescent girl. She is suspected of murdering her best friend, Flora, who was found bloodied in her bed that very morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

For two years now, Lise has been wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. Now it's time for the trial. Faced with a silent, confused, uncooperative girl with controversial morals, what will the court decide? Above all, how will it judge? On what considerations will it base its decision? The Girl with the Bracelet<\/em> is a hellish jigsaw puzzle, where each piece uncovered causes the viewer increasing anguish and a real desire to know the truth. To finally understand the psychology of a young, possibly murderous eighteen-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girl suffocates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The film takes place over several days of the trial. Virtually every scene takes place in the courtroom. With the exception of a few moments in which we witness passages from Lise's daily life. Given the situation, she's been taken out of school, her every move is monitored by the police, her father is on edge, but still wants to support her, and her mother seems to have given up on her. The girl is suffocating. You can't see it, but you understand it. She needs to live, to enjoy, to free herself, but it's getting in the way. Too much pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the scenes of everyday life in question are useful for trying to penetrate the psychology of the rather hostile and resolutely closed, wounded protagonist, they don't mark a point of success for the film. I'd even go so far as to say they're a failure. This is often the problem with French productions that want to make their scripts and dialogue seem more realistic than they are. It just doesn't work. These scenes have all the makings of a superficial, repetitive and poorly shot TV movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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