La Mif

11th October 2022

Certificate 15 / Fred Bailiff | France | 2022 | 110 minutes | French with English subtitles

A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. They live under the same roof but haven’t chosen each other. This experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An incident triggers a chain of over-reactions but their lust for life also strengthens bonds. Just like a family. TA

“Powered by skittering, unpredictable energy and adolescent emotional eruptions, it’s a smartly structured portrait of a de facto family unit….” Wendy Ide, Observer