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Lila Says
Samuel Goldwyn Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Vahina Giocante,
Mohammed Khouas,
Karim Ben Haddou,
Edmonde Franchi,
Lotfi Chakri,
Hamid Dkhissi,
Carmen Lebbos,
and
Stéphanie Fatout
Based on the best-selling and highly controversial French novel of the same name, Lila Says is an incredibly seductive story of sexual awakening. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ziad Doueiri
Mark Lawrence
Joelle Touma
Chimo (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ziad Doueiri
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 29, 2005
Theatrical: June 24, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
89 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Lila dit ça"

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83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Lila, played by Vahina Giocante, who resembles a sexed-up young Emma Thompson, is a teasing, 16-year-old blond baby doll with a gleam of perception beyond her years.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Both lead actors are wonderful, and director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut) artfully addresses the cultural and even spiritual dimensions of the story without losing sight of the lovers' tenderness and confusion.

80
Film Threat
Eric Campos
This thoroughly engaging, if tragic, love story unfolds like a psychological striptease. The biggest challenge here is not to blush.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Startlingly erotic and surprisingly moving.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Doueiri sprinkles Lila Says with moments of humor and violence -- a mix that keeps the film fresh and unpredictable.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Superbly acted, especially by Giocante as the teasing 16-year-old instigator.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Lebanon-born director Ziad Doueiri, a camera operator on Quentin Tarantino's films, has a dreamy, fluid style he decorates with light electronic sounds -- from bands like Air -- that give this film more than a touch of youthful poetry.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Unsurprisingly, the camerawork in Lila Says is spectacular.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Ms. Giocante's intoxicating mixture of gamine innocence and womanly knowingness is almost too much for the movie - Lila is surely too much for Chimo - but her charisma, and Mr. Doueiri's insouciant, heart-on-the-sleeve style give it a mood that is at once breathlessly romantic and cannily down to earth.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Vahina Giocante oozes a killer blend of purring, lascivious innocence and little-girl-lost vulnerability as Lila.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Raw, earthy yet tender and perceptive, Lila Says marks a strong directorial debut for Doueiri, who was Quentin Tarantino's camera operator on "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown."

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
This coming-of-age tale is ultimately about self, not sex.

67
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
It doesn't take an awareness of the ethnic and cultural differences between the miniskirted siren and the shy Arab youth to see that she might be more than he can handle.

63
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Far less interesting than its premise, primarily because we never know what anyone is really thinking.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The story's message is less than profound, but it's vividly delivered.

60
Variety
Derek Elley
Easy on the eye but light on originality.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Had director Ziad Doueiri focused on the resentful Arab youths who clatter provocatively around the edges of his Marseilles-set drama, he might have discovered something interesting.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
Results in a film that's more exploitative than sympathetic. Compared to the works of fellow Francophone directors Catherine Briellat and Clare Denis, Doueiri's depiction of female sexuality in Lila Says is both wooden and pat.

50
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The picture's effect: the sexual element is trenchant, while the status of Muslim youth registers strongly.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The result, although more sexually provocative, is not nearly as gratifying as was his (Ziad Doueiri) breakthrough film.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
One long tease, not just because it keeps promising sex it doesn't deliver. It teases at deeper themes and cultural commentary.

38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Lila is all come-ons without any charm.

20
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
A misguided tale of sentimental education.


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