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My Little Princess is a 2011 drama film directed by Eva Ionesco and inspired by her relationship with her mother, the well-known artistic photographer Irina Ionesco whose pictures of her young daughter caused controversy when they were published back in the 1970s.
- François-Xavier Frantz
- Bertrand Burgalat
May 18, 2011 · May 18, 2011 4:45am. Cannes Film Festival. CANNES – Being hatched from her own difficult childhood experience as a misused muse for her photographer mother doesn’t lend authenticity, coherence or...
May 17, 2011 · My Little Princess. By Allan Hunter 2011-05-17T09:21:00+01:00. Dir: Eva Ionesco. France. 2011. 105mins. Painful personal experience is distilled into poignant drama in Eva Ionesco’s promising ...
Eva Ionesco has made a film loosely base on her own childhood in which her mother photographed her in dramatically controversial ways. Most likely, because this "art" was done in the mix of the cultural confusion of the 1970's -- Ionesco's mother's work was accepted as "art" and challenges of "child porn" were never culturally addressed.
Although, initially it may sound like a cinematic cliché to go over family dynamics once again, the film offers us a double controversy: The first being the relationship itself and the fact that the mother (played beautifully by Isabelle Huppert) takes erotic/pornographic photos of her under-aged daughter(Anamaria Vartolomei) and sells them ...
My Little Princess is a 2011 drama film directed by Eva Ionesco and inspired by her relationship with her mother, the well-known artistic photographer Irina Ionesco whose pictures of her young daughter caused controversy when they were published back in the 1970s.
For those interested in the subject matter from the perspective of the controversial 1970's photographic work's subject or fans of Huppert, it is well worth seeing.
- Drama
