Milla

An incandescent film observing the life of a French underclass girl, Valérie Massadian carves out images of profound beauty and great tenderness.

  • Director

    Valérie Massadian

  • With

    Severine Jonckeere, Luc Chessel, Ethan Jonckeere

  • France-Portugal 2017. 128min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Milla traces the conditions of survival of a 17-year-old girl and her boyfriend Leo, as they glean a life on the margins, sleeping in cars and squatting in temporary shelter, as she faces motherhood. Like Loden’s Wanda Goronski, Massadian’s working-class subjects, played by non-professionals, have been ‘given no chance’ by a society that thrives on class inequality. The filmmaker bestows these young vagabonds with a gaze of deep care and reverence.