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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381304527
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 27069
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Gushing water. Subterranean rumbling. Sun-dappled green vistas behind huge stone walls. So begins Innocence, a fascinating fable about a mysterious school for girls, where one arrives by coffin to a self-enclosed, highly regimented universe of botany classes, ballet and playtime. The journey from girl to womanhood and the dangers and perils contained therein has rarely, if ever, been explored in a more creative manner than in this intoxicating feature by acclaimed film director Lucile Hadzihalilovic. With stunning cinematography by Benoit Debie (Irreversible, Calvaire), a world both compelling and ominous unfolds as six-year-old Iris watches time pass and girls disappearing one by one...
Starring Marion Cotillard, the acclaimed actress who portrays Edith Piaf in the hit foreign film, La Vie en Rose.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fine-Spun Macabre Cinematic Magic
Like the very best gothic fairy tales, the film submerges us in an innovative, surreal aesthetic that evokes coming of age. The startling imagery (watery expanses alternately placid and violent, blood-bright ribbons and whitest uniforms) and cryptic but highly suggestive narrative hover between beauty and menace, embroidering a delicate, deadly spiderweb ambience. The shimmering magic and terrors of childhood and pubescence, which coil just beneath consciousness, are given phantasmatic form in ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting for Marion Cotillard fans....
German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind's symbolist novella "Mini-Haha: The Corporal Education of Young Girls" (1888) is the basis for this film, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. It takes place in a girls' school for affluent students, who arrive in a coffin, one by one, and who are not allowed to leave. (Anyone who tries to leave has to stay there forever, and become one of the old women who are servants to the current girls.) Marion Cotillard plays one of the two teachers, Eva, a ballet teacher; ... Read More
Rating:  - Freak zone (SPOILERS LURK HERE!!! Do not read if you don't want to know!)
"Innocence" is a freak show.
The setting is apparently some sort of school, although that is a term to be applied very loosely. It's a semi-penitentiary; all girls, each neophyte arrives in an elaborate (and locked) wooden coffin. There is a large starburst immediately over the (unconscious) child's face, covered in mesh wire, so the girl can respire.
Each novice is then introduced to the routine of her new prison-like existence by the established girls. Each "year" (reinforcing ... Read More
Rating:  - Video Quality is Terrible
I didn't make very far into this film - either the encoding is absolutely off or it was filmed with a cheap DV camera. There's some strange video (de-?)interlacing/combining going on that creates a horrible jerky blur around any movement. The reviewer who said it renders the movie unwatchable is right. What looked to be an interesting movie was completely ruined by shoddy image quality.
Rating: - Growing up allegory
Innocence is probably the most challenging film I've seen but if you sit back you can figure out most things. A little girl arrives in a cioffin to a school in the middle of the woods. She lives in a house with other girls older than she is. The studies are simple:nature and ballet. Lots of play. But where do the older girls go? Why is no one allowed to leave? Who are the old ladies? A film about growing up with strings attached.
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