

A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.
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Cast

Anouk Grinberg
Victorine

Myriam Boyer
La mère / The mother

Olivier Martinez
Petit Paul

Marcello Mastroianni
Le père / The father

Jean-Michel Noirey
Maurice Le Garrec

Jean-Pierre Marielle
L'homme seul / The lonely man

Claude Brasseur
L'enfoiré / The dumb

Denise Chalem
l'institutrice

Éva Darlan
Jeannine
Irène Tassembédo
Gladys Boigny

Patrick Bouchitey
Marcel, le barman

Charles Schneider
le sergent Boigny
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