The Five Devils
8-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne. When her estranged aunt Julia suddenly returns to town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel a past replete with family secrets. From TMDB
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20 of 20 · most liked firstGutted about this. If you haven't seen the French film 'The Five Devils', I recommend taking the time—it features one of Tyler's songs in an incredible scene that lives rent-free in my head.
unlabelledView post →Lastly these 10 films didn't make my list but they stuck with me all year because of their daring and/or personality. Good movie years needs their like. Brooklyn 45 Candy Land Country Gold El Conde The Five Devils Horseplay Perpetrator Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game Sharper They Cloned Tyrone
unlabelledView post →earlier today I was trying to figure out the significance to Camila Cabello's blue lollipop but couldn't find a place to start...tell me why I just found this blue lollipop moment in the trailer for The Five Devils (2022) which is described as a "time-traveling lesbian romance about lives not lived"
unlabelledView post →@stinasdemons.com The Mubi movies I binged on: The Five Devils Perfect Days The Florida Project The Bones (short film) Robot Dreams Paterson My First Film Shiva Baby Trouble Every Day Revenge
unlabelledView post →Last night's #film was Léa Mysius's smart fantasy drama Les Cinq Diables /The Five Devils (FR, 2022) with Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sally Dramé, Swala Emati and Moustapha Mbengue letterboxd.com/film/the-fiv... #21stCenturyFilm #2020sCinema watched on bluray #PhysicalMedia
unlabelledView post →A recentish movie that I feel like has been criminally overlooked is The Five Devils. It's weird and funny and sweet and stressful and I think almost perfect, if not for one VERY on-the-nose needle drop which I have chosen to forgive
unlabelledView post →First off, here's my Top 10 (UK release dates) letterboxd.com/24fpsuk/list... Others that LB lists as 2022 Small, Slow But Steady The Five Devils The Passengers of the Night Love Life Resurrection
unlabelledView post →Bonne année ma petit cinglés!! This month we are getting some goddamn culture and watched the brand new French film THE FIVE DEVILS 😈😈😈😈😈 Is this movie really a "bisexual Back to the Future" as the advertisements claim?? Come find out... moviesthatwhip.podbean.com/e/the-five-d...
unlabelledView post →Really liked this french movie The Five Devils (from 2022 but hit US theaters this year) where a crucial scene is a karaoke performance of this song
unlabelledView post →The Five Devils ★★★★ The dark flipside to Petite Maman? Lea Mysius' film takes in mother/daughter relationships, suggestions of time travel or visions allowing a child to see their parent growing up, tying it to sense memory through smell and sound...
unlabelledView post →The Five Devils is an interesting film which you have to pay attention to as it provides no easy answers. I can see some dislike it but I loved the addition of the fantasy elements allowing the film to show, not tell its audience what happened in its characters past
unlabelledView post →Exact same. I was sure I'd love it, and was surprised and disappointed that I didn't, especially since I'm usually onboard with Sachs. It's still worth seeing. For my money, The Five Devils is a better recent Adèle Exarchopoulos film (or even Mandibles; she rarely gets to use her comedy chops).
unlabelledView post →Yesterday I watched Léa Mysius' magical-realist-coming-of-age-family-drama-love-story The Five Devils. Adèle Exarchopoulos' performance and co-writer Paul Guilhaume's cinematography are both breathtaking and child actor Sally Dramé is adorable. I loved this film and felt nourished by it.
unlabelledView post →The Five Devils is *set* at Christmas and is the scent-based time travel film you didn’t know you needed in your life 🖤
unlabelledView post →Watched "The Five Devils"[2022] a movie that demands your attention with its shifting timelines and for once I wouldn't have minded some dodgy makeup to remind of which timeline we were in. There's a good concept in there, a kid with a gift for scents using her powers over her troubled family
unlabelledView post →Léa Mysius has created a fascinating study here in The Five Devils. It reminds me a lot of Kubrick's horror, The Shining. Both films revolve around a protagonist that is a child gifted with the "Shining", the gift of "seeing" what others do not. The common thread is that the gift is really a metaphor for how much adults underestimate what a child sees, hears, and understands. Mysius uses magic surrealism as the vehicle for her exposition. It's quite charming and exciting. It's very well done…
positive · AI labelView post →Just realised: The Five Devils is a Christmas film - watch it!
unlabelledView post →Film of the day: LES CINQ DIABLES (THE FIVE DEVILS, dir Léa Mysius, 2021) Overly moody tale of growing up different in a wounded family with a number of intriguing supernatural elements cleverly built in, only to become an easy way out for its plot.
unlabelledView post →"Vicky" (Sally Dramé) lives with her school swimming coach mother "Joanne" (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and fireman father "Jimmy" (Moustapha Mbengue). Despite a fair degree of quite nasty teasing from her schoolmates, she is a happy enough child who has an astonishing gift. She has the most acute sense of smell. She can differentiate between natural and man-made scents - she can even sniff her mother out in the woods, at a distance, amongst all the other fragrances. The appearance of her aunt "Julia"…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Five Devils director Léa Mysius and star Adèle Exarchopoulos chat about the film https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-16-five-devils-director-blown-away-by-amazing-adele-exarchopoulos-feature-story-by-richard-mowe #film #BFIFlare #TheFiveDevils
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