Synopsis
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam
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Cast
- Lola NaymarkClaire Moutiers
- Marie FélixLucile
- Thomas LaroppeGuillaume
- Arthur QuehenThomas
- Élisabeth CommelinMme. Moutiers
- Christophe HateyButcher
- François NoëlBike Guy
- Yasmine ModestineNurse
- Annie-Claude SautonBaker
- Nathalie KirzinRound Woman
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Faucher's filmmaking is exquisite, Naymark's acting is luminous, and superb use of music lends a crowning touch. - 75
New York Daily News
A lovely, almost painfully intimate story of female bonding that never panders to its characters or its audience. - 75
New York Post
Eleonore Faucher, first-time director (and co-writer) of the French charmer Sequins, is well aware of Neymark's allure and sees to it that the young woman is seldom out of the frame. - 70
Village Voice
Sequins hinges on its performances and newcomer Naymark is a marvel of quiet intelligence, endowing Claire with a complex mix of virginal purity and hormonal rage. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
But if her wisp of a story rushes the simple connection between the women, the actresses fill in the details with an easy, unforced intimacy. - 60
Variety
Thoughtful cross-generational portrait is full of familiar building blocks rendered fresh by first time feature helmer Eleonore Faucher. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Touched with eerie dream sequences, the film casts a strange spell that's enhanced by the rhythmic, almost sensual depiction of the painstaking art of embroidery. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Sequins will tax the patience of most viewers not enthralled with endless close-ups of beads and brocades.
