Young & Beautiful
Young & Beautiful
NR | 25 April 2014 (USA)
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Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.

Reviews
Sexylocher Masterful Movie
Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
videorama-759-859391 We walk a familiar path with this one. I've seen it before in a few other resembling films, Elles, Student Services. Thank god it changes track, second half, the better half, and heads into a much more dramatic direction, though again, with some familiaritie's along the way. We see her, from the opening frame, through simulated binocular vision sun baking on the quiet ocean shore, little brother perving from above, which brought me back to my childhood, while vacationing. Then we see her bra less, and it is a beautiful sight, I must admit, and there are some other nice ones later on, we're generously afforded. She does it with her first love, pre turning seventeen, before we're back in the big smoke, and we cut to the b.s. to see our hot Isabelle (Veitch) heading to the door of a 70's john, who becomes her main one. A tragic event later on, during a session of passionate, loveless sex, brings to the mind an exact same scene from the shallow Slovenian Girl, years earlier. Veitch of course gets addicted, where her Mum, and stepdad are oblivious, until the aftermath of that tragic event, and from here, the film improves, gathering a lot of spice, where I for one was thankful. Through all of this, Veitch acts love repressed, which were led to believed, mostly the catalyst was her former holiday love she lost her virginity too. Veitch is hot and there are some quite raunchy scenes, one involving oral with her and her main old john, prior to his carking day, but nothing too explicit, some eye oglers will be disappointed. I kind of got a bit more what I expected from what I thought would be again, a shallow in the life of a sex student film, although there is still of shallowness there. It's final scene was beautifully thought provoking, featuring a fine actress, donning a bad wig. The relationship between sister, and little brother I really liked, where the stepdad character was written well. All in in, YAB is an enjoyable art house adult drama, kind of ambiguously erotic, but Veitch is something to eat up. Kind of hauntingly music score attached.
doriiiii I rated this film 5 out of 10 because of its lazy script and lack of character development. We have a 17-year-old college student Isabelle who decides to become an escort for some vague reason, then quits when her elderly regular dies under her, eventually starts dating her peer, and by the end of the film is drawn back to the escort trade again. The main character is aloof and emotionally detached, she never says or reveals anything more than a bare minimum. I could come up with a handful of reasons why she chose this path, what attracts her to it, what she thinks and feels, but I'm reluctant to connect the dots and fill in the blanks, it's not my job to invent a story or explore the subject, it's the scriptwriter's one, and I've seen very little character exploration, fresh perspective or food for thought in the film. If anything, this film is hateful. Women here are bitter and insecure, men are unpleasant, indifferent and unfaithful, and even nonchalant main character shows pettiness when she can't resist seducing her stepfather who remains unperturbed by her charms and scandalous choice. It's a beautifully shot film with a solid cast and a charming lead, but it's as uninterested as its protagonist, and it never makes for a good story, even when it's a controversial story about an underage prostitution.
SnoopyStyle Isabelle is on a family beach holiday in the south of France. Her father is long gone with his own young family in Italy. She is about to turn 17. She loses her virginity to hunky Felix but it's not as great as she expected. A few months later, she's working as a high class call girl claiming to be 20 year old Lea. Her elderly client Georges dies from a heart attack during sex. She leaves him behind. Later, the police contacts her mother after tracking her down.Marine Vacth is playing a cool aloof hot girl. I'm not sure if she's the next great thing. She doesn't do much more than be that young and confused girl. She is giving a limited acting range. Director and writer François Ozon delivers a paper thin plot. It doesn't give much insight into Isabelle's inner thoughts. There are no simplistic answers. It basically gives no answers. It has a nice cameo at the end but it doesn't use it to full advantage either.
juanmlleras I have to tell that I was so disappointed by this movie that I left the theater about 40 minutes into the film. My summary is that life has already to many sordid things to sit in a film to look at the sordid world of a young woman turning herself into a call girl. I could not find any artistic value in this film, although it has some good photography. As to a plot other than the process of a girl turning into a whore, I could find none. Direction is mostly focused on showing the main actress tits. I found this film voyeuristic, void of plot and sordid. If you want to learn about this subject instead of going into this film, interview a young call girl. If you are a voyeur, you might like this piece of human garbage.