L'Enfance du mal (2010) Directed by Olivier Coussemacq
Drama / Thriller
aka: Sweet Evil
Film Synopsis
When her mother is sent to prison, 15-year-old Céline ends up
in the care of a well-to-do bourgeois couple, the Van Eycks.
Céline does all she can to make her adoptive parents like her
and no one would think she had a troubled past. But then the Van
Eycks make some surprising discoveries about Céline and begin to
suspect that it is not by chance that she is now under their roof...
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