Ava
Neutral, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
Our read · Ava (2017) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Ava
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sensual French summer of teen sexuality before impending blindness.”
Skip it tonight — You are uncomfortable with a 13-year-old's nudity and sexual awakening.
The reading.
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