Un Deux Trois Soleil, France 2002

This is a French love movie, but a very unique one. Natalie lives with her mother, but she hates her. Her mother is all over her, taking care of every single detail in Natalie’s life. We then meet her father (Marcello Mastroianni) an alcoholic fellow who is always drinking small “aperos” and “pastice” in the neighbourhood café. In some scenes, Natalie acts extremely childish, as if she were 5 years old. At other scenes, she acts as a grown-up spoiled teenager, or even an insulting adult. She then meets Paul, a teenage thief with no aspirations or future. References to sexual acts are made throughout the story, and characters appear and disappear in the same scene: they appear in the corner of the house, peek in the room thru a window, and so on. You can say dream and reality are sometimes mixed together. An overall strange film about teenage love and growing up in the suburbs of Marseille.