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  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 8 m
Milla

Summary In a delicate, even generous manner, Valérie Massadian’s new film begins as a story of two young lovers’ life on the fringes before shifting towards one of recent cinema’s finest depictions of motherhood. Milla and Leo live clandestinely, their meager furnishings and sustenance countered by a love for which there is neither a logic nor s...

Directed By: Valérie Massadian

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Valérie Massadian

  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2018
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 8 m

Milla

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Summary In a delicate, even generous manner, Valérie Massadian’s new film begins as a story of two young lovers’ life on the fringes before shifting towards one of recent cinema’s finest depictions of motherhood. Milla and Leo live clandestinely, their meager furnishings and sustenance countered by a love for which there is neither a logic nor s...

Directed By: Valérie Massadian

Written By: Geoffroy Grison, Valérie Massadian

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100
Aug 2, 2018
Milla is a major achievement, a film that is at once as delicate as it is strong, a fitting testament to motherhood, to survival.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 2, 2018
We observe moments of living rather than the beats of a story, all that natural lighting and everyday quiet stirring the sense of lives taking shape before our eyes.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 26, 2018
Valérie Massadian's Milla begins with a stylistic bait-and-switch that neatly summarizes the film's overall sense of formal balance.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 14, 2018
Although this quietly daring, decidedly nonjudgmental film doesn’t ask or answer a lot of questions, it paints a cumulatively vivid portrait of young love and early motherhood.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 1, 2018
The emotional moments that push her life in new directions must be colored in by the audience. Though that never feels like much of an intellectual challenge, and the 127-minute film is in no hurry to paint its picture, something about Milla's ordinariness makes her worth getting to know.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinémadefacto, Gaïjin, Terratreme Filmes, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA), Eurimages, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Ciclic - Région Centre, Arte/Cofinova 11
Release Date Aug 3, 2018
Duration 2 h 8 m
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Website https://ciclic.fr/catalogue/milla
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
FICUNAM Festival International de Cine UNAM
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Nominations

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