I cannot even give this movie one star.
Where do I start? I watched it because the New York Times liked it and wrote it up. NYT what are you thinking? is Netflix paying you tons to promote their movies?
This one is awful.
I just wasted 1 and 1/2 hours of my life watching something brainless and vapid.
Producers/ director trying to make it feel like the brilliant french avant-garde cinema of the 50's and 60's?...total and utter fail...subtext, side glances, silences, tempo, you have to be a genius to master those, they cannot be just copied.
Actresses Zahia Dehar (silicon Barbie) and Mira Farid are, in a good scene, expressionless and throughout the movie... bovine. Their faces are frozen and their eyes dead; maybe that IS what they have been told to feel by the director...."feel avant-garde?" and yes, I know that Zahia Dehar was an underage prostitute before this film. Lets throw her in for good marketing purposes.
Cliché cliché cliché...the Riviera, topless nubile girls, rich older foreign men on a yacht, all that stuff, no plot, lots of breasts and bums.
And to top it all it is dubbed! The girls sound breezy and not at all like the Northern African tough suburbia talk that makes France multi culturally french. That contrast is needed here.
One of the themes of this movie is that race and social class defines you no matter how young and pretty you are. Even the young and all-white crew on the yacht give the girls the stink eye. The fact that these two girls are Northern African is an important plot point, but here, in the dubbed version, they sound like easy breezy wasps or a South of France version of Paris Hilton....really? What little texture this movie had is erased with the dubbing until there is nothing left to grab on to. Pffffffffff....