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MOVIE OF THE WEEK February 17, 2023: A RADIANT GIRL

February 11, 2023March 5, 2023 Jennifer Merin A Radiant Girl, betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, french films, holocaust, Jamie Broadnax, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren koing, movie of the week'motw, nell minow, Pam Grady, Rebecca Marder, sandie angulo chen, Sandrine Kiberlain

There’s something incredibly poignant about watching someone happily going about their everyday life with no idea that history is coming for them, inescapably and inexorably. Such is the circumstance of Irène (Rebecca Marder), the young, exuberant, and Jewish main character of A Radiant Girl. That’s because writer/director Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut feature is set in German-occupied Paris in 1942, when being Jewish was quickly becoming very, very dangerous.

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A RADIANT GIRL – Review by Jennifer Merin

February 8, 2023February 11, 2023 Jennifer Merin A Radiant Girl, french films, holocaust, movie of the week'motw, Rebecca Marder, Sandrine Kiberlain

French writer/director Sandrine Kiberlain’s stunning first feature, A Radiant Girl, is an intimate reveal of the daily life of nineteen year old Irene, who lives with her family in a comfortable apartment in a well-to-do Paris quartier. Lovely Irene is bright and personable and pretty. For her, the future seems full of possibilities. She is hungry to experience life and she sets about doing so with appealing carefree abandon. She is passionate about theater, curious about love, finds joy in gathering with friends. She is a thoroughly engaging ‘every girl’, and you will enjoy her as she enjoys her life. But she is a Jew in Paris in 1942, and her future is…engangered.

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