The Hussy

1979 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 19% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 19% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 731 731

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Plot summary

Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. For reasons which never become clear, François kidnaps Mado, and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. Instead of feeling fear, Mado enters into the spirit of the abduction, and they joust with one another, increasingly finding love and comfort in their relationship. When the police come upon them, however, they put an entirely different interpretation on their behavior.

Top cast

Norbert Delozier as Le beau-frère de François
Marie Sanson as La vieille dame aux Cailloux
Janine Huet as La soeur de François
Edouard Besnehard as Le boulanger
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731.55 MB
1204*720
French 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.39 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

The French "collector"

A strong analogy with William Wyler's masterful "the collector" (1965).But "la drôlesse" is a good movie on its own,probably Jacques Doillon's finest hour.François,a hung-up young man,locks up Madeleine ,a teenage girl ,in an attic.François is an outcast,unable to integrate well into a society. Here begins a "in Camera" drama ,with a subtle development.Soon ,we do not know anymore who the prisoner is and who the jailer is.An inhibited person,François is completely baffled when Madeleine tells him that she wants to be pregnant by him.As some critics noticed when the movie was released ,the keyword is "games".The two characters seem to play dad and daughter ,dad and mom ,and so on....Madeleine Desdevises,who was very promising,died from leukemia shortly afterwards.
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Reviewed by percyporcelain 6 / 10

Bizarre and elliptical kidnap movie

This story is wrong on so many levels - a French pre-teen is kidnapped by the village idiot (or at least misfit) who literally carts her off in a trailer attached to his moped. (This, after sexually propositioning her mother and being rebuffed.) Oddly enough, she submits to her abduction as if it's all a bit of a lark. Once back at his pad (the attic of a barn, by the looks of it), he installs a primitive surveillance system and warns her not to try and escape. It's all looking pretty dark by this point, and we fear he will turn into some kind of monster. Instead he mellows and even shows her small acts of kindness, emerging as merely a sad loner. The power balance inevitably shifts - a kind of Stockholm syndrome scenario - and by the end of it, she is free. Was she smart and resourceful enough to suss him out and get the better of him, or just feel sorry for him? In any event, she comes out looking a lot cleverer than him.

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