As a film, Carine Tardieu's
Du Vent dans mes Mollets (
The Dandelions in English) is not just simple and understated, but also heart-warming and profoundly affecting. The story, about a shy nine-year-old Rachel Gladstein (Juliette Gombert), her struggles to get away from the overprotective watch of her mother Colette (Agnes Jaoui), and her eventual opening up to life upon befriending the brazen and
intrepid Valerie (Anna Lemarchand) at school, is by turns humourous, delightful and engaging even as it switches gears from a dramedy to a full-on drama (though at times predictable), while hitting all the right notes in its terrific exploration of a mother-child relationship.
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