Set Me Free
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80 out of 100

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9.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: Set in 1963 Montreal, Lea Pool's coming-of-age story examines the life of a 13-year-old girl (Vanasse) who escapes her life as the illegitimate daughter of a struggling Jewish writer and a Catholic seamstress through her love of films. She adopts an unlikely role model in the prostitute heroine of Godard's "Vivre sa vie."… Collapse

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    100
    Aside from the effectiveness of Set Me Free as a coming-of-age story, it's also one of the most poetic avowals of love for movies that I've seen in years.
  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    78
    A challenging concept conveyed here most impressively onscreen.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    The movie gets a little confused toward the end, I think, as its writer and director, Lea Pool, tries to settle things that could have been left unresolved.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    38
    A slice of life that adds up to exactly the sum of its parts, no more, no less.

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