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Axelle Ropert’s Locarno Film ‘Petite Solange’ Is a Tender Study of Adolescent Vulnerability

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Phuong Le “I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says.

For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” a world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, it is the complicated aspects of familial life and interpersonal relationships that come under the microscope.Ropert’s film follows young Solange as she witnesses the breakdown of her parents’ marriage and loses her sense of self in the process.

Alone and neglected, her childlike spirit is broken by the realities of a toxic adult world. “I’m very much a cinephile and I always think of my films as starting from other films from the history of cinema that I’ve loved,” Ropert explains.

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