Girls Désir: a director to follow (critic)

This first feature film by Prïncia because shaking up the clichés on men-women relationships among young people in working-class neighborhoods and reveals a bunch of amazing young actors.

In 2018, Principa Car founded an alternative cinema school in Marseille with the ambition to integrate this art into the daily life of young people often kept away from culture due to economic or educational difficulties. And the adventure is already going beyond his dreams. With her students, she founded her own troop where everyone plays and participates in the writing of the various projects. And after a first short, Barcelonaselected in Clermont-Ferrand in 2019, they go into a long format with these Girls desirediscovered in May in Cannes at the fortnight of filmmakers. And of which Prïncia Car wrote the structure with the screenwriter Léna Tuesday before improvising each scene with her actors, joined by a newcomer, the irresistible Lou Anna Hamon.

We follow the return to the Marseille city of Carmen, the childhood friend of Omar, an airy center instructor, respected by all. An ex-prostitutes who will shatter the small band (99% male) who surrounds her and especially their relationship hitherto quite primary to sex and love. Doped by the energy and the authenticity of its interpreters, the film amazes by its way of foiling absolutely all the clichés on men-women relationships among young people in these popular districts. Or more specifically to reinvent the codes through in particular an unexpected sorority which develops between the girlfriend of Omar and Carmen with whom the latter nevertheless deceived it, in place of the usual ranging of grabs. New voices that make a lot of good