# My Little Princess

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{{Infobox film
| name           = My Little Princess
| image          = MyLittlePrincess2010Poster.jpg
| caption        = French poster
| director       = [Eva Ionesco](/source/Eva_Ionesco)
| producer       = François-Xavier Frantz 
| writer         = [Eva Ionesco](/source/Eva_Ionesco)<br>[Marc Cholodenko](/source/Marc_Cholodenko)<br>[Philippe Le Guay](/source/Philippe_Le_Guay)
| starring       = [Isabelle Huppert](/source/Isabelle_Huppert)
| music          = [Bertrand Burgalat](/source/Bertrand_Burgalat)
| cinematography = [Jeanne Lapoirie](/source/Jeanne_Lapoirie)
| editing        = Laurence Briaud 
| studio         = Les Productions Bagheera <br>  [Canal +](/source/Groupe_Canal%2B) <br> [France 2](/source/France_2)
| distributor    = Sophie Dulac Distribution
| released       = {{Film date|2011|5|17|[Cannes](/source/2011_Cannes_Film_Festival)|2011|6|29|df=y}}
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = France<br>Romania
| language       = French<br>English<br>Romanian
| budget         = $3.4 million <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12115 | title=My Little Princess (2011) - JP Box-Office }}</ref>
| gross          = $136.555 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1896788/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 | title=My Little Princess }}</ref>
}}
'''''My Little Princess''''' is a 2011 [drama film](/source/Drama_Film) directed by [Eva Ionesco](/source/Eva_Ionesco) and inspired by her relationship with her mother, the well-known artistic photographer [Irina Ionesco](/source/Irina_Ionesco) whose pictures of her young daughter caused controversy when they were published in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/09/30/VIFF-2011-Review-of-Eva-Ionescos-MY-LITTLE-PRINCESS|title= selfishness is consistent throughout the film but particularly in the early days of their working relationship  |accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref>

==Plot==
12-year-old Violetta is raised by her loving grandmother ("Mamie", the French equivalent of "Grandma") in 1970's Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.ungrandmoment.be/my-little-princess/|title= Violetta vit avec sa grand-mère et souffre de l'absence de sa mère|accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref>  Her volatile mother, Hanna has abandoned the family to pursue a career in photography and visits infrequently. During one of these visits, she invites Violetta to her apartment and asks her to model for her photographs, finding her to be a natural talent at modeling. She begins to dress Violetta in gaudy dresses and introduces her to Hanna's lover, painter Ernst, who finances her career.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://filmjournal.net/noelm/2011/07/12/my-little-princess/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110713160327/http://filmjournal.net/noelm/2011/07/12/my-little-princess/|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2011-07-13|title= mother Hanna (Isabelle Huppert) is away living a bohemian lifestyle, mixing with other artists of dubious character|accessdate= 2011-10-17}}</ref> She starts exploiting her daughter who by transforming into a kind of Lolita becomes increasingly alienated from other children of her age.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/latest-reviews/my-little-princess/5027680.article|title= Violetta turns into a Lolita figure, standing forlornly in the school playground in tight hot pants|accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref> At school she is eventually frequently insulted and rejected.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.fichesducinema.com/spip/spip.php?article2611|title= À l'école, ses camrades l'insultent et la rejettent.|accessdate= 2011-10-17|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425074225/http://www.fichesducinema.com/spip/spip.php?article2611|archivedate= 2012-04-25}}</ref> Then Mamie dies and Hanna's photographs are about to unequivocally overstep the line of acceptability.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117945253/|title= Pic's most troubling scene involves a special commission, in which Hanah instructs her daughter to strip|accessdate=2011-10-17 | work=Variety|first=Peter|last=Debruge|date=2011-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.avoir-alire.com/article.php3?id_article=16464|title= La jeune fille avait même simulé à 11 ans des actes sexuels dans un film |accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref> Hanna even coerces Violetta mercilessly into cooperation by withholding her food in case she doesn't agree to pose for increasingly daring photographs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daserste.de/ttt/beitrag_dyn~uid,pknvhtjh2ze6idaj~cm.asp#moreinfo3|title= Ihre Mutter, Irina, macht unerbittlich klar: ohne Fotos – kein Essen.|accessdate=2011-10-24}}</ref> Eventually Hanna's right of custody for her twelve-year-old daughter is at stake.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/my-little-princess-cannes-2011-189748|title= Hannah is accused of being an unfit mother|accessdate=2011-10-17 | work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=David|last=Rooney|date=2011-05-18}}</ref>

== Cast ==
* [Isabelle Huppert](/source/Isabelle_Huppert) as Hanna Giurgiu
* [Anamaria Vartolomei](/source/Anamaria_Vartolomei) as Violetta Giurgiu
* [Denis Lavant](/source/Denis_Lavant) as Ernst
* [Louis-Do de Lencquesaing](/source/Louis-Do_de_Lencquesaing) as Antoine Dupuis
* Georgetta Leahu as Mamie
* Jethro Cave as Updike 
* [Pascal Bongard](/source/Pascal_Bongard) as Jean 
* [Anne Benoît](/source/Anne_Beno%C3%AEt) as Madame Chenus
* Johanna Degris-Agogue as Apolline 
* Déborah Révy as Nadia 
* Lou Lesage as Rose 
* [Nicolas Maury](/source/Nicolas_Maury) as Louis 
* Pauline Jacquart as Fifi

==Reception==
German magazine ''[Focus](/source/Focus_(German_magazine))'' found Anamaria Vartolomei was convincing as a young girl whose life eventually turns into a nightmare because of her mother's artistic ambitions in 1970s Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/film-im-not-a-fking-princess-der-alptraum-einer-lolita_aid_677586.html |title= Die Nachwuchsschauspielerin Anamaria Vartolomei überzeugt als junges Mädchen, für die der Traum ihrer Mutter von einer Künstlerkarriere im Paris der 70er Jahre zum Alptraum wird.|accessdate=2011-10-24}}</ref> <br>{{blockquote|Painful personal experience is distilled into poignant drama in Eva Ionesco’s promising first feature ''My Little Princess''. Autobiographical events from the 1970s are shaped into a fairytale-like narrative illuminating the abusive nature of Ionesco’s relationship with her mother Irina and eternal arguments over the limits of artistic freedom.| Allan Hunter – Screen Daily <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/latest-reviews/my-little-princess/5027680.article|title = My Little Princess}}</ref>}}

Critics also commented that Anamaria Vartolomei and [Isabelle Huppert](/source/Isabelle_Huppert) have portrayed the lack of affection so convincingly that they have even been accused of interacting insufficiently as actors.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.abusdecine.com/fiche-film.php?numero=4004|title= Malheureusement, elles jouent toutes seules, chacune de leur côté|accessdate= 2011-10-17|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120404194757/http://www.abusdecine.com/fiche-film.php?numero=4004|archive-date= 2012-04-04|url-status= dead}}</ref> Regarding this, Huppert told German newspaper ''[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung](/source/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung)'' in an interview that shooting of the film had been one of her more peculiar professional experiences because on the set she had had the feeling she was indeed the director's mother.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/im-gespraech-isabelle-huppert-lieben-sie-die-abwechslung-madame-huppert-11500585.html |title= Ich habe diese Mutter gespielt, eine starke, herrische, aber auch verwundbare Frau, war am Set also quasi die Mutter der Regisseurin – eine merkwürdige Erfahrung.|newspaper= Faz.net|accessdate=2011-10-23|last1= Suchsland|first1= Rüdiger}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|1896788}}

Category:2011 French-language films
Category:2010s Romanian-language films
Category:French biographical films
Category:2011 directorial debut films
Category:2011 films
Category:Films set in the 20th century
Category:French drama films
Category:Films directed by Eva Ionesco
Category:Romanian drama films
Category:Romanian biographical films
Category:2011 drama films
Category:2011 multilingual films
Category:French multilingual films
Category:Romanian multilingual films
Category:2011 French films

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