8-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne. When her estranged aunt Julia suddenly returns to town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel a past replete with family secrets.
- 6.8
- 2022
- Released
- 1h 36m
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Joanne Soler
Sally Dramé
Vicky Soler
Swala Emati
Julia Soler
Moustapha Mbengue
Jimmy Soler
Daphné Patakia
Nadine
Patrick Bouchitey
Le père de Joanne
Hugo Dillon
Jeff
Antonia Buresi
La mère de famille
Noée Abita
La serveuse en rollers
Charlotte Bon Bornier
La petite fille blondeAlain Guillot
L'entraîneur de gym
Stéphanie Lhorset
La directrice de l'écoleInès Helouin
La chanteuse du karaoké
Merwan Rim
Le DJ du karaokéHabib Rharbaoui
Le garçon de la bandeJade Kleine
La géante rousse
Julien Reneaut
Le père de la géante rousseClara Borne
GymnasteJohara Telli
GymnasteAnaïs Estival
GymnasteAlexandra Fernandes
GymnasteLeïa Giraud
GymnasteEva Queiros
GymnasteMargot Raynaud
GymnasteEloah Louisjuste
La petite fille de la fin
Released
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$3,370,000.00
$46,666.00
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- #woman director
- #scent
Reviews
Léa Mysius has created a fascinating study here in The Five Devils. It reminds me a lot of Kubrick's horror, The Shining. Both films revolve around a protagonist that is a child gifted with the "Shining", the gift of "seeing" what others do not. The common thread is that the gift is really a metaphor for how much adults underestimate what a child sees, hears, and understands. Mysius uses magic
"Vicky" (Sally Dramé) lives with her school swimming coach mother "Joanne" (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and fireman father "Jimmy" (Moustapha Mbengue). Despite a fair degree of quite nasty teasing from her schoolmates, she is a happy enough child who has an astonishing gift. She has the most acute sense of smell. She can differentiate between natural and man-made scents - she can even sniff her mother ou