The Worst Film Ever

good back-story, and good acting

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I had mixed feelings. This is a well acted tale of teenage love gone wrong. A sweet, innocent 14 year old girl ends up prostituting herself (and her best friend) for her tortured, disturbed boyfriend, in the name of love. Chilling, disturbing, and real (based on a true story), and without the self-conscious exploitation of a film like 'Kids'. But in the end something seemed missing – a deeper theme, or a larger truth. I buy that kids do insane things in the name of love, caught in hormonal rushes, but somehow the film didn't transcend that one obvious notion. It's almost like it didn't take it's own story seriously enough. There was even something a little Hollywood-cliché about it, despite all its extremity. Especially the very familiar 'good' nerdy boy she 'should' like. Most critics I respect liked it more than I, so maybe I'll revisit some day.

What a movie... I just watched this movie once, a cold night making zapping with the TV and I saw this title (In my country they named it "The end of the innocence"), and I began watching expecting to be a tragic teenager drama... and French. What I saw totally turned me up. It begins like a normal teen movie and suddenly it begins to change its way. It ain't about a silly blonde haired girl, but about this shy little Delphin (I got to say that Maud Forget just stole my heart), who feels solitary, alone, bored, confused, and when meets her new school-partner Olivia begins to think about a new world, to find it out. Then the other Mauvaises Frèquentations appear. The apparition of her love changes the whole movie: she feels different, more open, more happy. And it is really emotional when you see all she does just for her loved one, how she looses her way. The conclusion, at least for me, is that this little Delphine just doesn't realize of nothing, learns nothing, as if it hadn't been a hard experience, and just waits for the next Laurent to come... but thinking a bit better about her friend.Oh,and since I saw it for the first and only time I have been trying to get a copy of it but I had never able to. Does any of you know where can I get one?

For more than half an hour, this is no more than a conventional and rather boring story about first love among young teens. Maybe the film makers realized this, adding a rude drama for the second half of the movie, which has very little to do with the first half.It could work, in the same way a good thriller can take a long time before the horrors emerge - but it doesn't, not at all, because the development of the plot is simply not plausible in the characters. There is nothing in them, which convinces me that they would get themselves into that mess. Nor is there anything about them revealed in the second half of the movie, which would bring light to the sudden change.It's like two movies in one, or maybe even three or four. One or two of them could be good, left alone, but not a chance when they're messed up with each other.

I was prepared to be shocked and scandalized but this film treats its subjects in a rather unshocking manner. A college professor could use this film in class to teach about ethics and morality without terribly shocking the students. Only one sex scene which involves nothing weird and the things you'd rather not see are not shown. What remains are some lost French teenagers, a good soundtrack and lovely footage of Grenoble (I think). It's not a fabulous film but it's got good actors and keeps a critical distance from the really upsetting elements of human nature, as teenagers themselves are wont to do. The gender roles are boring - go see French films made by women if you're hoping to see actresses who do more than the Amelie ingenue act in front of the camera.