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Apr 28, 2023 · Love According to Dalva: this sensitive debut explores the aftermath of abuse. Zelda Samson gives a remarkable performance as Dalva, a 12-year-old-girl coming to terms with her experiences of sexual abuse.
May 21, 2022 · “It’s OK if she wants to be a lady,” she scolds them. Later, she insists Dalva learn to smoke because it will “do [her] good,” perhaps the most French line in the film. In therapy sessions,...
Nov 23, 2022 · A towering performance by young Zelda Samson anchors Emmanuelle Nicot's award-winning French drama, 'Love According to Dalva.'
- Manuel Betancourt
May 1, 2023 · It quickly becomes clear that Dalva, who looks and behaves older than her age, is somebody who, having become estranged from her absent mother, has come to love her father, to see herself as a woman rather than a child and to regard their sexual rapport as a natural expression of that love.
- Mansel Stimpson
Apr 26, 2023 · “I ’m not a girl, I’m a woman,” are the stabbing words spoken by Dalva (Zelda Samson), a 12-year-old who wears heavy makeup, scrapes her hair into a bun and dresses in middle-aged women’s clothes. The film opens with officers taking Dalva’s father Jacques (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) away.
May 20, 2022 · A stark portrait of a 12-year-old child who has been groomed and programmed by her paedophile father, Love According To Dalva works as a coming of age in reverse.
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May 20, 2022 · Cannes Review: Emmanuelle Nicot’s ‘Love According To Dalva’. Child grooming is a tough subject to tackle, but Belgian director Emmanuelle Nicot takes a sensitive approach in her Critics...
