Alice

Name: Alice
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: May 15, 2020
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Ariana Rodriguez Giraldo, Chloé Boreham, Christophe Favre, David Coburn, Eliza Calmat

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Monument Releasing | Release Date (Streaming): May 15, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ariana Rodriguez Giraldo, Chloé Boreham, Christophe Favre, David Coburn, Eliza Calmat, Emilie Piponnier, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, Jules Milo Levy Mackerras, Juliette Tresanini, Martin Swabey, Nicolas Buchoux, Philippe de Monts, Robert Burns

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Awarded as the best narrative feature (and best debut feature) by the jury at the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Summary: After discovering that her husband's addiction to escorts has left their family penniless, Alice finds herself drawn into the world of high-end prostitution as a means of caring for herself and her child.

Director: Josephine Mackerras

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

May 14, 2020

Alice is truly independent like never before and she’s confronted with the unfair fact that she probably won’t be able to maintain it if she also hopes to keep Jules. To watch Piponnier weigh that abhorrent truth is to witness the internal struggle every woman who’s experienced this type of coerced acquiescence faces. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 16, 2019

Piponnier dominates every frame, with a mesmerizing screen presence that pushes the drama well beyond its formulaic premise and visible microbudget constraints. Read full review

Josh Sandy

Aug 4, 2020

There is no doubt that Alice is an empowering watch. It skillfully combines narrative realism with compelling character development and whip-smart dialogue to produce an engrossing look into a subject matter that is all too frequently over-sexed and sensationalised. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

May 15, 2020

As Alice, Piponnier is phenomenal, putting in a meticulously reserved performance in what could very well have been a melodramatic role. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 15, 2020

It’s one of the most daring films ever made, not so much because of anything it overtly depicts as what this controversial classic reveals about the infinitely complicated psychology of human sexuality. Read full review

Lorry Kikta

Mar 16, 2019

There’s a lot of emotional and intellectual material that writer/director Josephine Mackerras grapples with in Alice, and she is quite successful in doing so. Read full review

Devika Girish

May 14, 2020

Alice (rightfully) regards the choices of its heroine with respect and empathy. But its picture of sex work as an easy out, devoid of any real danger, feels like a simplistic fantasy. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

May 23, 2020

Turnabout is fair play when a young Parisian wife and mother discovers that her philandering husband has emptied the family's bank accounts to pay for the services of high-end prostitutes. To provide for her toddler son and hold on to her housing, the inventive and now-independent womanTurnabout is fair play when a young Parisian wife and mother discovers that her philandering husband has emptied the family's bank accounts to pay for the services of high-end prostitutes. To provide for her toddler son and hold on to her housing, the inventive and now-independent woman takes a job with the very escort agency her ex availed himself of, a move that proves liberating and lucrative, enabling her to amass the resources she needs for when matters between the former partners become contentious. This innovatively empowering, warm and sometimes-funny tale hits most of the right notes, albeit a tad predictably at times, with a fine lead performance by Emilie Piponnier, atmospheric cinematography and an excellent original score. The premise of this domestic drama may seem a bit far-fetched for some (even though is is very French), but the movie nevertheless serves up good entertainment and an evocatively offbeat source of inspiration.… Expand

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Aug 14, 2020

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