Four Céline Sciamma films are available on Netflix
Under the prism of the quest for identity, Netflix is including 4 films by the French director in its catalog this October.
After Truffaut and Varda, Netflix offers a new French cinematographic era by offering films signed Céline Sciamma: birth of octopuses (2007), Tomboy (2011), gang of girls (2014) as well as the emblematic work Portrait of the girl on fire (2019). These four films mark the director’s career brilliantly. In light of an increasingly growing state of consciousness in society, Sciamma imposes a tone devoted to the development of women.
birth of octopuses (2007)
Discovered at Un certain regard, the director’s first feature film sketches the portrait of young girls prey to budding desires. Marie, Anne and Floriane find themselves deep in the intimacy of a secret, an antidote to their solitude.
Tomboy (2011)
Céline Sciamma delivers a story about Laure, a 10-year-old tomboy, troubled by her sexual identity – the gentleness of the protagonist reinforces a candid atmosphere mixed with the seriousness of her identity fluctuations.
gang of girls (2014)
In this critically acclaimed film, Céline Sciamma features a group of girls, around Marieme (Karidja Touré), with an unstable lifestyle in a suburb that is cruel to female development. A beautiful gesture unfortunately marred by clichés which did not fail to arouse the anger of certain black activists questioning its legitimacy in addressing this subject. The director has since proven them right in an interview with the New Yorker.
Portrait of the girl on fire (2019)
With this lesbian and feminist love story in the 18th century between Adèle Haenel And Noémie Merlant, Céline Sciamma brought down the 2019 Cannes festival (Director Prize) and shook up international cinephile. To the point that the film was propelled to 30th position in the prestigious British Film Institute rankings, to the great dismay of the temple guardians.
