Des poupées et des anges (2008) - film review
Nora Hamidi
Drama

Summary
The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris
housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage
daughters. Lya, 17, and Chrine, 18, respond to their father’s
bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French
adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she
jumps at the chance, but soon realises she may be about to fall into
the prostitution racket...
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Credits
- Director: Nora Hamidi
- Script: Nora Hamidi (novel), Nora Hamidi
- Photo: Jean-Louis Vialard
- Cast: Leïla Bekhti (Lya), Karina Testa (Chirine), Samy Naceri (Le père), Fejria Deliba (La mère), Samuel Le Bihan (Simon), Chems Dahmani (Sophiane)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 102 min
- Aka: Dolls and Angels
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