Vicky and Her Mystery
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, steady, gentle adventure / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since her mother's disappearance. During a walk in the forest, a shepherd gives Victoria a puppy named "Mystery" who will gradually give her a taste for life. But very quickly, Stéphane discovers that the animal is in reality a wolf… Despite the warnings and the danger of this situation, he cannot bring himself to separate his daughter from this seemingly harmless ball of hair.
Our read · Vicky and Her Mystery (2021) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded adventure · family · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Vicky and Her Mystery
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