'Little Girl Blue' Review: Marion Cotillard Plays a Troubled Mother – The Hollywood Reporter
Marion Cotillard plays writer-director Mona Achache's own mother in doc/drama hybrid 'Little Girl Blue.'
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Marion Cotillard plays writer-director Mona Achache's own mother in doc/drama hybrid 'Little Girl Blue.'
If more fascists slept with Baya Benmahmoud, there would be fewer fascists. That is her theory, anyway, and a good many fascists allow her to test it during "The Names of Love," a wacky French satire about the supercharged political climate in France. Baya (Sara Forestier) is the child of a gentle Algerian father and a fervently political French mother. Sexual abuse by her childhood piano teacher has inspired her, somewhat obscurely, to use sex as a weapon of political persuasion. "The Names of Love" swims in the waters of French politics, which are a good deal more diverse than our own, span...