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Maybe without the Neon and definitely not as good as the Refn movie I'm referring too. But still quite good for a B-movie with a similar story. The life of models is a tough one you see? But how tough and how people are handling the issues that arise depends on the person themselves and how they act and react to certain situations.

Having said that, be aware that there is nudity, though that should not be the main selling point nor the main reason why you should avoid it (hopefully). Very powerful performances and a really good well thought of script (with some clichés thrown in for good measure of course as always), that will keep the suspense up until the end.

The tone of the movie is good. I don't feel relax watching the stuff that happens. You can see that is a grounded in reality that this can happen to a model. The ending is good too. It her choice if she wants to go back that hellish glamorous world of fashion or back to her comfort zone.

Geeze this movie had a lot of potential. I know it was an over dramatization of a real situation, but i feel like this movie could have delivered so much more. There are parts of the movie that are really strong, and you become intrigued and you feel very invested in the movie, but it falls flat almost immediately. The ending somewhat saved it, but you don't necessarily feel her loss, you just feel somewhat benign. I would love to see a remake of this movie, but with a better screenplay. I loved the lead male photographer and female model. you also see full front of a very hairy dude. Hes hot but not well groomed. thats not a spoiler. its just a fact.

... would a highly successful fashion-photographer get involved w-a teenager having not a clue regarding her-actual-age ... highly-unlikely... & that's basically most important bit regarding entire production... (can that be a spoiler) ... boring-script uninteresting-characters... (FTR Palm was born in '93)

A 2016 movie about a young model who is taken advantage of (a little) by some of the people she meets in Paris... I agree with the previous reviewer; it's well made, good story line, well acted, giving a balanced picture of the modelling industry, and one girl's story of how things can go wrong, & survival. There was another 2016 movie about a model, "Neon Demon", and this was 100 times more worthwhile, and probably cost a lot less to make! The audio & visual impact of Neon Demon was awesome, but it was a hollow waste of time, and the publicity machine made it look attractive. If "The Model" was treated the same way, it would still have been good, but it didn't need the gloss or powerful audio track to make it work. Some of the dialogue is in Danish, but you don't really need subtitles to understand what's being said.

If you feel like wasting 1 hour and half of your day, please go watch this film. The dialogues are shallow and dull, the main characters personality and behavior are disgraceful and immoral, plus, as you keep watching you'll realize the plot is as bad as it can get. The acting seems descente enough, though, I'll give you that.

This is a strong, solid film...has alot going for it believable performance by Maria Palm as we experience Paris fashion world through her eyes.skillfully played out. Im not into high fashion and didn't think I would like this film but loved it.

Great use of cinema, tactile, unpredictable, lively engaging. Crew put in some solid effort with editing and soundtrack and mixing is quite brilliant , casting great too- hats off.

Where budget may have been lacking the filmaker concentrated on story and characters and it worked. The film is fresh and you don't miss what bigger budgets give because the script is so good.

The film also has just the right pacing with room to Breathe and think, something rare nowadays.

A Great achievement all around I'm looking forward to seeing what this director can do with a bigger budget, knock out socks off I'm sure!

Great movie. The film starts off portraying a young girl simply chasing her dreams and falling in love, but it later develops into something much more twisted and sinister.

It is a reminder of how cruel the world can be and also how our actions in the real world always carry consequences, and that there's no escaping reality.

I really loved this film.

That's quite an accomplishment for a story that is dark, and characters who are unsympathetic. But it raises important issues that need to be examined and discussed.

Very well acted, well directed, written and edited.

I can understand why some people might not like a film that poses controversial questions, and fearlessly goes where most dare not tread. But I appreciated that it dared to go to those places.

It's a great film to discuss if you have open minded, intelligent friends who appreciate that victimization isn't always as clear cut as we would like it to be.

Or, you may just end up losing friends afterwards. #NOTaMEtooStory

Me-to-movement sent a lot of powerful Hollywood people and rich people into jail, but not in 2016 when this movie was produced. This movie is probably a good description of the meToo in action: a teenage girl pretends to be an adult and sexually lures a big fashion figure (photographer Shane) into bed. The sexually bribed fashion figure hires the young woman and makes her into a fashion star. The photographer is not a devoted family man and continues fooling around. A fight between the two drives the man into a jerk who fires the girl from his fashion business. And she turns crazy. Without meToo prosecutors/lawyers and meToo judges (2016 was too early), the photographer didn't go to jail and the young girl didn't get rich. Fast forward to 2020s (6 years after the movie time), powerful meToo prosecutors/lawyers and judges turned the powerful Hollywood jerks and rich people into criminals without any physical evidence, and a good number of successful gold diggers were born.

Dad turns to daughter and asks, "Are you sure you're ready for this?" Not in a million years would my dad drop me off in a big city on my own that young! But Denmark, you know, bohemians. Paris is Paris and if you look like a model, the sky's the limit for how far you can go. It's the #me too era as well as the era of tall skinny gawky adolescents ruling the fashion world like exotic doe-eyed giraffes. Magical eye-candy meets mean streets in this country-girl-goes-to-the-big-city to strut her stuff in palatial minimalist settings. Welcome to the jungle. The dialog, the Brian Epsteins, the conflicts, the abuse, and the assaults are believable, naturalistic, and unfiltered, choreographed from unusual angles and you-are-right-there cinematography. All is not right in fashion Disneyland for the awkward strangely gorgeous heroine, whose interpretation of the somewhat psychotic lead charactor is so spot on, for all we know she is that person. A person l know well. A child woman who in her eagerness to please and pander to a predatory phantasmagoric industry, is gobbled up like a popcicle on a hot summer day. But who knows, maybe for some ambitious canny dangerous femme fatales, the cost of fame is worth it in the end.