A black version of Cinderella or the story of a Cosette who would never see a Jean Valjean come to her rescue , this story is neither fairy tale nor novel:it's based on real life events and it's quite plausible, for, read the newspapers ,these awful facts are still happening today everywhere in 2020.
In its own way ,it's more terrifying than the latest horror flick ,full of special effects ; it's a low-budget film,and its treatment is almost banal ,in its stark black and white.Watch Lucie Mitchell -whose playing was so intense though restrained ,thus all the more scary- and then try to forget her:they say that the actress received death threats after the film .
If Marie -Louise can strike horror into our hearts , one can also put the blame on the father (can a person be so blind, so weak ,or is he simply a moron?) and on the priest (why didn't he send the victim to a convent , dad hinted at it in a previous scene?).Only the generous neighbor seems to realize the danger : a person with a big heart , she will imitate Victor Hugo's fishermen in "la legende des siècles ": although not rich at all, she will take in the waifs.
In its own way ,it's more terrifying than the latest horror flick ,full of special effects ; it's a low-budget film,and its treatment is almost banal ,in its stark black and white.Watch Lucie Mitchell -whose playing was so intense though restrained ,thus all the more scary- and then try to forget her:they say that the actress received death threats after the film .
If Marie -Louise can strike horror into our hearts , one can also put the blame on the father (can a person be so blind, so weak ,or is he simply a moron?) and on the priest (why didn't he send the victim to a convent , dad hinted at it in a previous scene?).Only the generous neighbor seems to realize the danger : a person with a big heart , she will imitate Victor Hugo's fishermen in "la legende des siècles ": although not rich at all, she will take in the waifs.