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Movie Info

In the 1960s, Hanna (Karine Vanasse), a teen girl with a troubled home life, finds solace in films, especially those starring actress Anna Karina, who reminds her of her schoolteacher (Nancy Huston). Hanna's father (Miki Manojlovic) is an unhappy poet, her mother (Pascale Bussières) is exhausted from work and their marriage is failing. Hanna finds support in her brother (Alexandre Merineau) and in Laura (Charlotte Christeler), a girl at school to whom she is becoming increasingly attracted.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Léa Pool
Producer:

Lorraine Richard, Carole Scotta, Alfi Sinniger
Writer:

Nancy Huston, Léa Pool, Isabelle Raynault
Box Office (Gross USA):

$73.4K
Runtime:

1h 34m
Production Co:

Haut et Court, Catpics AG, Cité-Amérique

Cast & Crew

Karine Vanasse
Hanna

Alexandre Merineau
Paul, frère de Hanna

Pascale Bussières
Mère de Hanna

Miki Manojlovic
Père de Hanna

Charlotte Christeler
Laura

Nancy Huston
Professeur

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Critic Reviews for Set Me Free

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (3)

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March 19, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Globe and Mail
The performances in Set Me Free are all gentle, lovely creations that are of a piece with the film's humanistic touch.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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January 1, 2000 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
Tells its story so effectively through pictures it's barely necessary to read the subtitles.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4

Lou Lumenick
New York Post
In some of its details, it resembles Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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January 1, 2000 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
Pool has reached a new level entirely as writer-director of deeply emotional yet lightly humorous storytelling. Best of all, she's taken a genre known for its softness, the coming-of-age film, and put some bite into it.

February 26, 2020 | Full Review…

B. Ruby Rich
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Tinctured with a feminist perspective, Set Me Free tends to see the world as a series of shiny traps set for young girls, a difficult path to adulthood made worse without a capable female role model.

January 29, 2020 | Full Review…

Felicia Feaster
Creative Loafing
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August 1, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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June 15, 2002 | Rating: 3/4

Reel.com
Director Lea Pool has fashioned an engaging film about one girl's coming of age.

March 13, 2002 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
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July 3, 2001 | Rating: 2/5

Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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Audience Reviews for Set Me Free

May 17, 2013

A superb addition to the Quebec canon brought to you by Lea Pool who is very successful at bringing out strong emotions from her actors. Karine Vanasse is the beneficiary of her guidance.

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