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  • 2000
  • Merchant Ivory Productions
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2000
  • Merchant Ivory Productions
  • 1 h 34 m
Set Me Free

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."

Directed By: Léa Pool

Written By: Nancy Huston, Monique H. Messier, Isabelle Raynauld, Léa Pool

  • 2000
  • Merchant Ivory Productions
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2000
  • Merchant Ivory Productions
  • 1 h 34 m

Set Me Free

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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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."

Directed By: Léa Pool

Written By: Nancy Huston, Monique H. Messier, Isabelle Raynauld, Léa Pool

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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6% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
15 Reviews
0% Mixed
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6% Negative
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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.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
90
Propelled by a captivating, wrenching performance by Karine Vanasse as Hanna, a 13-year-old girl adrift in a sea of powerful emotions in Montreal in 1963.
By Lawrence Van Gelder FULL REVIEW
87
Blessedly free of candy-box prettiness, cloying gentility, and anything else that might dishonor its deeply felt, sensitively observed memoir.
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75
Tells its story so effectively through pictures it's barely necessary to read the subtitles.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
75
Stands apart from the trite conventions of most coming-of-age drama chiefly through the originality of Pool's approach and the honesty and conviction of Karine Vanasse's portrait of Hanna.
By Desmond Ryan FULL REVIEW
70
Spare and quietly heartbreaking, this French-Canadian feature uses a fine brush to depict a teenage girl in the midst of a quiet crisis.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
38
A slice of life that adds up to exactly the sum of its parts, no more, no less.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Catpics Coproductions, Cité-Amérique Cinèma Télévision Inc., Haut et Court
Release Date Apr 14, 2000
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Website http://www.artlic.com/films/setmefree.html
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Awards

Jutra Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Toronto International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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