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The story revolves around two very different cousins, Naima and Sofia. Sofia, the elder of them, 22 as we learn later, decided to make a living as a good time girl. With her great looks, although much enhanced through surgery, she is very successful in getting in contact with rich, elder men. By accepting expensive presents from them and staying for awhile in their circle until the get bored and find a way to get rid of her, she lives well without a regular work.

This summer of the story she stays with her younger cousin Naima in Cannes where she starts to give Naima little bits of advise how to get around in the world. Naima, only 16 at the time, is rather naive at the beginning, but in the course of the summer, she gets wise to Sofia and starts to see her in a much less admiring light.

Although the title of the film points to Sofia, it is Naima, who is the more interesting character. Sofia already had made her decision how to tackle life, Naima is drawn between the "glamourous" life, which Sofia seems to lead, and normal friendships like Dodo, a young, probably gay, guy who wants to become an actor. And jobs, as her mother, who works as a maid at a very fancy hotel and restaurant, who offers her an internship at the restaurant's kitchen.

Naima is for some time very confused by the sudden mixup with the life of two 40 year old men, one the owner of a yacht, the other his paid companion. While the owner Andrè certainly prefers Sofia and soon has sex with her, the other one, Phillipe, is more respectful towards Naima and figures correctly, that she is still a minor, and keeps his distance.

The whole story is a coming-of-age drama around Naima, who likes her cousin, although she sees things through her, that are shocking.

I didn't know the background of the actress who played Sofia, but I found she looked perfect for the role. Now I know why. As for the young girl who played Naima, she has the more demanding acting role and she handles it very well. Recommendable film!

Know how to make good movies. This wasn't a blockbuster but was very entertaining and the acting was great. For some reason even though I understand little, if any, French, I understood perfectly what was happening throughout the movie. Maybe some American directors and actors should take some time off from their superhero films and go to France and learn how to make real movies.

Although it's set in the present day, there's a feeling that the events of this film are dredged from distant memories. It begins with the start of Naïma's last school holidays growing up in the strange double world of Cannes. Naïma herself (played by Mina Farid) comes from a normal world where her mother works as a chambermaid in one of the posh hotels frequented by the people from the other world of ridiculous idleness and unfeasibly opulent motor yachts moored on the front.

Out of the blue, Naïma's older cousin, Sofia appears and it's quickly apparent that she is the "fille facile" of the title, her over-tanned body easily flaunted for any passing lothario. Zahia Dehar has apparently some autobiographical experience to draw on in depicting Sofia and she makes the best of a fairly meagre characterisation.

Sofia quickly settles her attentions on Andres (Nuno Lopes) who owns one of the yachts while Naïma tags along and turns, in time, to Andres' sidekick, Philippe. Benoît Magimel plays Philippe, one of the more complex characters, well, but always feels too old to be of much interest to a sixteen-year-old.

Sofia and Andres' relationship is based on the exchange of meaningless sex for expensive presents. There's a retro style to some of the cinematography especially as it lingers sometimes a second of two too long on Sofia's curves and on the couple's antics. It all emphasises the dreamlike feel of the whole movie. Naïma observes the couple with a mixture of distaste and fascination - enough fascination, at least, for her to neglect her Compulsory Gay Friend, Dodo.

About half way through the film, I was reminded of a couple of days from my distant past when my sister and I, naively backpacking around the US, happened upon the lives of a couple superficially similar to Sofia and Andres. But in our short time as his guests, this real guy showed a conflict over his life choices and offered me an alcohol-fuelled, but apparently sincere, apology for the shallowness of his lifestyle.

Sadly, introspection like this was rather lacking from several characters in the movie and that's its major weakness. But for Naïma herself, the story is believable, and for that, it's worth watching. 7/10.

Overall the movie fails in some ways to achieve the depth it wants to achieve, but the coming-of-age theme still struck a chord with me. These slice-of-life scenes - the partying, the low-key drama, the confusion of it all - could be very familiar to all Gen Y or Z viewers.

The movie is very unapologetic in its nudity, sympathetic to a new kind of female character that no movie I have ever seen has been sympathetic to. That extremely realistic, clumsy yet charming karaoke scene was a breath of fresh air.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it a GREAT film by objective standards, but it definitely has a soul, something that not many movies have anymore. Creatively shot and immersive in its simplicity, with a feminist message that is all-inclusive.

This movie has the visual style of Call Me By Your Name and just as much action. It's a film set in the summer in Cannes and the main characters are two girl cousins who spend their time together. One, a 16 year naive that doesn't yet know what she wants and a 22 year one that has already found a calling in being an escort for rich men. That's it. The acting is good, the situations believable and we learn how actual people react in actual situations. Yet the film makes no effort in exploring the set up in depth. There are no artificial dramas either. Just a girl figuring herself out. And other than a few breast scenes, it's not particularly erotic either.

And I don't have much more to say. Yet another Net-flix find to fit the shallow stream. The formula seems to work fine, surprisingly! I'm worried about the humanity a bit.

Strong points:

• Having grown up in the area where this was recorded, I thought it successfully captured the pace of life and the type of people one would find in Cannes

• Pleasant watch, dialogue between the characters flows well and naturally for the most part

• Zahia's acting somehow works. It is quite monotone, although I imagine her casting might have more to do with her reputation than her acting ability. The calmness and seeming detachment of the character creates an air of mystery, an aura of sophistication.

Weaker points:

• The silent, complicit naiveté of Mina Farid works up to a certain degree. There is a point where she begins to express more of a personality (through her exchanges with Philippe) but it does not seem to build up to anything in particular, which I thought was a shame.

• The film is pleasant but uneventful. I wouldn't watch it again but I also wouldn't dissuade anyone from watching it.

While at least one of the main actresses in this was about a decade older than the character she portrayed, you almost buy it. And she plays it loose and "innocent". Though most would not call her innocent at all. Not in any sexual way that is, because she really puts herself out there.

And while she is doing that, her friend is the introvert and able to express herself the same way. Now if you are judging one or the other, that is I reckon fair. But remember that we are all different and we do experience things different. This is about a summer that helps both those girls grow to become the person they end up to be.

Maybe not highly philosophical, maybe not the best movie, but it is quite the decent one. If you don't mind the occasional nudity and sexual situation depicted here that is of course. Sparsely used but still some may feel "offended"

Naïma (Jiang Rong) is almost 16 years old and lives in Cannes at her mother's house. Her family receives the impromptu visit of her Parisian cousin Sofia (Zahia Dehar), a young woman with a silhouette as divine as artificial. Naïma will spend an unforgettable summer on a luxury yacht along the French Riviera, with Sofia as well as Philippe (Benoît Magimel) and Andres (Nuno Lopes), two forty-year-old men, wealthy and attractive. Thus, she will get to know herself better and leave her adolescence to finally take life in her own hands.

The French title, i.e. « une fille facile » meaning an 'easy' woman, is deliberately provocative and tantalizing quite as the choice of the deliberately inflammatory Zahia Dehar who was a hot news topic, one decade ago, because of a scandal with a part of the French soccer team using the services of this juvenile call girl. This is slightly misleading. In my humble opinion, the focus is also on Naïma and a pivotal period of her life thanks to Sofia and Philippe.

As a postscript, 1) The incident with the collector's sextant is far-fetched and particularly disappointing: a real weakness in the script. 2) I would personally have imagined the end scene punctuated by the song 'My way' popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra. Why? Well, she obviously found it, didn't she?

In my opinion i just saw i salacious movie, just a movie full of nudity with no straight line of story trying to have positive message and if there's a one i really Disagree with it. I can't compliment any role, it's just so normal. The whole movie is so normal: screenplay,actor,story. As always in netflix movies the cinematography is so beautiful. Over all nothing interesting in these movie and there's tons of movie of same type better than it.

Only Contemporary European and French cinema can give you both so much simplicity and grandiosity in a plot.

No extravaganza here, but just brilliant acting from all actors. Don't expect some ingenious plot, but the movie reflects so well the life on the Côte d'Azur during summer and the nefarious games people play sometimes. Very relaxing movie which I really enjoyed.

"This movie is lost, don't know where they gonna bring the audience, totally disappointed, boring, some weird scene, even the ending they want the audience sad and proud but that's not on me, and if the acting like very good I think that's still not gonna help this movie, not recommend"

The acting was good, interesting storyline, worth the watch

Rebecca Zlotowski's 'An Easy Girl' is a film about sun, sex, and pleasure. It is essentially a coming of age story with a dash of ongoing themes of a working-class lifestyle versus a "working girl" lifestyle and male gaze versus male respect but with none of those themes are conveyed or executed in depth. Beautifully shot and has some wonderful set pieces to tell the story but, unfortunately, it falls flat in terms of plot and character development.

The French movie Une fille facile (2019) was shown in the U.S. with the translated title An Easy Girl. The film was co-written and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski.

Mina Farid stars as the 16-year old Naïma, who lives in Cannes. Her cousin Sofia (Zahia Dehar), aged 22 comes to visit her. Sofia is not a good cousin.

The scenery in and around Cannes is beautiful, but that's the only good thing I can say about this film. I kept waiting for it to start, but I was still waiting when the movie ended.

I saw this movie (on Netflix) because the New Yorker magazine had given it a rave review. It was only after I saw the movie that I checked the IMDb rating. Big mistake. As my wife says, "What have we learned." We've learned that some reviewer somewhere will like even a bad film. Check out IMDb before you spend the time watching a movie. I don't always agree with IMDb ratings, but when they are really, really low, I stay away.

With a horrific IMDb rating of 5.5, An Easy Girl may be the lowest-rated film I've ever watched. Even so, I didn't think it was that good, and rated it 4.

I just couldn't rate this well. The movie lacked so much and didn't deserve a higher score. Some nudity some excitement but apart from the odd moment of emotion it's more of a pointless low budget drama.

This is rubbish and synopsis etc is misleading. Boring sad movie about little more than a teen hooking up with a middle aged guy with her friend tagging along. Don't waste your time

The film starts off well then veers into tiresome and often repeated cliché scenes typical of 1970s French coming-of-age films. What used to be original and controversial back then feels terribly dated and derivative now. Good performance from the actors, but weak exploration of the characters.

This movie has no action. It's boring and in French. It's in French.

So in a nutshell an innocent Indian looking French girl who plays 16 but is at least late 20s has an over the top French Graham Norton type gay best friend and then spends a summer with her plastic looking French Paris Hilton esq cousin who has a really strange upper body and not a lot happens other than they meet a couple of caricaured richies who own a yacht. One being the French Gerard Butler who is pushing 50 and acts like a teen and the more mild mannered one who I cant remember his name and wasn't overly interesting. The French don't miss an opportunity to drop clothes so that happens a lot. The American dubbing was terrible but Cannes was quite nice. Just one of those movies which you instantly forget about as nothing really happens. Characters very irritating.