Ava

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13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.

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6.6/10

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- 6 wins & 14 nominations total

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Laure Calamy has several nude scenes in this movie. "I feel very quickly at ease. Nudity tells something primitive, it transcends the times, it is universal," she says. In a dreamy scene, she appears with her legs spread on a counter. "I suggested to Léa Mysius that we see a little more than the pubic hair, that the vulva appears, in a slightly primitive state. She was so happy, she framed the sex in the center of the shot! I think it's great, it's almost political."

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Ava gets pretty bad vision in dark places early in the film, to the point where she can't see a hand waved a few centimeters in front of her face standing beside a fire at night. Later she gets into an abandoned building with almost no light coming in and she sees even small objects perfectly.

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Written and Performed by Nina Hagen and Jun Miyake

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9/10

Amazing

28th STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. DAY 1, NOV 8th 2017. Swedish premiere of "Ava" (2017).

A beautiful, well-paced drama about being on the border between childhood and adulthood, "Ava" is a promising feature debut from Léa Mysius.

There is fine acting, a strong screenplay, good direction and deep emotions of fear, frustration, curiosity, excitement, joy, love, sensuality, as 13-year-old Ava learns she has an incurable eye disease that will soon make her blind. She tries to cope with it as best she can -- all while falling in love with an older boy and running away from home, during a hot summer on the French Atlantic coast.