Rosine is 14. She has a Maghrebi friend Yasminia and lives with
her 30-year-old mother Marie, a factory worker. Rosine strikes up
a friendship with André, a shy man who works in a shopping
centre. One day, a young man named Pierre turns up in town.
He is Rosine's estranged father. Unemployed, Pierre returns to
Marie, and even though he abuses her and her daughter, she allows him
to stay, so that she can have a normal family life.
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.