A little girl copes with her mother's death by withdrawing from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back.
Remarkable achievement for directing a full cast of children and telling the story from the little girl's point of viws, but ruined by a silly ending.
Halliwell*: "An unsettling film, partly because of doubts over the methods used to extract such an astonishing, emotional, tearful performance from its young protagonist, but also because of the harshness it exhibits - all the adults behave inappropriately - and its final lurch into banal fantasy."
Maltin**1/2: "Heart-rening, if unfulfilling, tale...Doillon, who also scrpited, truly captures life through the eyes of a child, but there's more emotion than substance, and the ending is a cop-out. Thivisol's amazingly performance is the film's greatest strength."
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