Little Marie is enclosed in her mystery of being a little girl, in her books, her music, dancing, to avoid being marked by what she goes through In order to film this story of Marie, set at the moment her father and mother separate, Miéville assumes the function of observing Marie without identifying with her, but simply recording how she goes through this first upheaval in her life, or rather, how this event goes through her. There is something of Rossellini in this project, which is modest and ambitious at the same time. The film attains a dry and pure emotion, and a new truth, about the end of childhood. (less info)