Average Rating: 7.3/10
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Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
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Swiss born Léa Pool, who settled in Montreal, Quebec in 1975, set her sixth feature film, Emporte-Moi, in Mile's End, Montreal's working class district, in the year 1963. Hanna is a thirteen-year-old girl who is mesmerized by Anna Karina's portrayal of Nana S. in Jean-Luc Godard's film Vivre sa Vie. She thinks Nana S. looks like her teacher, with whom she hopes to establish a special bond. Hanna has her share of problems at home. Her father (Miki Manojiovic) is a stateless Jew and an
Jan 1, 1999 Wide
Oct 24, 2000
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (3)
The most remarkable quality about it is that the movie actually has a subject.
In some of its details, it resembles Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows.
Tells its story so effectively through pictures it's barely necessary to read the subtitles.
Director Lea Pool has fashioned an engaging film about one girl's coming of age.
Well-made but old hat.
The performances in Set Me Free are all gentle, lovely creations that are of a piece with the film's humanistic touch.
A disarming, recognizable slice of life.
I found it to be a moving little French-Canadian film. Telling a pretty common story kind of took away from it being a truely superior film.
February 4, 2006
ok...more morbidity. it was night. we were in a house at the end of a culdesac. but that didn't stop the great number of cars circling around and turning back away from the house. an ex-girlfriend and i were watching the light do it's magic on the open blinds. we were screwing. some conversation. most of it didn't
June 7, 2005
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