The French nymph, poised on the precipice of womanhood, has long been an art-house cliché, and “An Easy Girl” knows it. Sensual and sly, this fourth feature from Rebecca Zlotowski — after “Planetarium” in 2017 — is both too clever and too subtle to pander to stereotype. So when we see Sofia (the stunning Zahia Dehar) frolic, bare-breasted, in a secluded cove in Cannes, her teasing of Georges Lechaptois’s camera tells us emphatically that she’s no ingénue. That description better suits Sofia’s cousin, the 16-year-old Naïma (Mina Farid, a real find), whose point of view the film adopts and whose outlook on life is about to shift. Yet, she confides, she’s uninterested in love: All she seeks is adventure and sensation.

Source: New York Times August 13, 2020 10:52 UTC