My Little Princess (2011)
Genre: Drama | Biography
Country: France | Director: Eva Ionesco
Language: French | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: Cinemascope 2.35:1 | Length: 102mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 1024×422 – 25fps – 1.68gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1896788/
“My Little Princess”, Eva Ionesco’s debut film explores the intense relationship between mother & daughter. Although, initially it may sound like a cinematic cliché to go over family dynamics once again, the film offers us a double controversy:
The first being the relationship itself and the fact that the mother (played beautifully by Isabelle Huppert) takes erotic/pornographic photos of her under-aged daughter (Anamaria Vartolomei) and sells them. The second being that these very events happened in the director’s actual life and caused a huge spark in France.
The film is autobiographical. Eva Ionesco’s life was marked by the same experiences Violetta had to go through, as her own mother, Irina, made her do for her. The pictures were pornographic in its content, which is what the director is repeating as a way, perhaps, to justify her own youth with a mother modeled after Hanna in the film.
I actually start tracking down the story of Ms. Ionesco and her mother recently, after finding a decent copy of the eyebrow-raising film, “Maladolacenza”, in which the barely pubescent and frequently undressed Eva co-stars, and wondering what became of her. Well-known glamor photographer Jacques Bourboloun also did a photoshoot with Eva as a youngster, and there was apparently even a photospread of Eva in a foreign edition of Penthouse, complete with the kind of pictures you’d expect, that is if she weren’t obviously underage. I heard about this film in the process of my fact-finding, but haven’t seen it until now. Many thanks as always for your dynamite site and awesome mind-reading powers, Mr. Duck!
Considering past sharp and unsparing complaints about her upbringing and relationship with her mother by Ionesco, I found this rendition of that background to be rather sanitized and pulling its punches.