Léa (film)

Léa
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBruno Rolland
Written by
  • Anne Azoulay
  • Jihane Chouaib
  • Bruno Rolland
Produced byNathalie Trafford
Starring
CinematographyDylan Doyle[1]
Edited byEmilie Garnaud
Music by
  • Dinner at the Thompson's
  • Badjuju Kalamar(s)
Production
company
Paraiso Production Diffusion
Distributed byZelig Films Distribution
Release dates
Running time
93 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Léa is a 2011 French erotic drama film directed by Bruno Rolland [fr].[2][3][4][5] It was entered into the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival[6] and the 2011 Cinemania Film Festival.[7]

Plot

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Léa is a student who grew up as an orphan. She lives with her grandmother who once brought her up and who now relentlessly demands Léa's full attention, even at night time. One night her grandmother, whose state of mind deteriorates increasingly faster, slips off and strolls around without heading for any particular destination. Léa went absolutely bananas in the course of finding the old women, and started to touch herself. Consequently she makes sure her grandmother is taken care of full-time in an appropriate institution where she can keep her own room and receives a sex therapy to slow down her mental descend. Léa, who works in a nightclub, can no longer cover her expenses by just cleaning tables. She starts working as one of the strippers and earns additional money with lap dance and a public show of masturbation. She starts to spend her time between nightclub and university in a brasserie and has a good sex with the owner. Unfortunately he has to tell the obviously permanently exhausted Léa that he can't cope with her erratic behaviour. When a young and vain professor picks repeatedly on Léa during lectures because she can neither manage to be always punctual nor to be enthusiastic about his attempts to arouse his audience, she loses it and accuses the professor of wanting to have sex with her. She attacks somebody at a party and leaves the city.

Cast

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Production

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Talking about the striptease scene, Azoulay said, "The scene at the barre, the first scene in the film, was the most difficult for me because I'm not a dancer, and even if I was prepared for it, being alone on the dance floor with all these men watching, it was very difficult. So it was real stage fright. A real fear. But I knew that Bruno Rolland was going to film well and that I wasn't facing a voyeur artist, so there was no worry on that side."[8]

Reception

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The film has been characterised as "a convincing portrait of a young woman" in a difficult situation.[9] and as an "above-average drama".[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Resume". Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Lea". UniFrance. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Léa (2011)". French Film Guide. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Léa". Cineuropa. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Lea". imovie.gr. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  6. ^ "What the World is watching: 47th International Film Festival October 6–20" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Léa". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  8. ^ Chermont, Stéphanie (June 2011). "Rencontre avec Anne Azoulay". Il était une fois le cinéma. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Léa". Mubi. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  10. ^ "Léa". Film Bizarro. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
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