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Director
Mikhaël Hers
Cast
Vincent Lacoste,
Isaure Multrier,
Stacy Martin,
Ophélia Kolb,
Marianne Basler,
Jonathan Cohen
Genre
Drama
Twenty-year-old David lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off making more serious decisions. But the relaxed pace of his life shifts up a gear when his elder sister is brutally killed in an attack. He must then take charge of his seven-year-old niece, Amanda.
Variety by Guy Lodge
The film — in tandem with Lacoste’s lovely, unguarded performance — works as a magnified study in coping, charting the stages of his jumpstarted growing-up alongside the more meandering course of his grief.
The Irish Times by Tara Brady
For all that emotional content, Amanda is a pleasingly unsentimental film, never more so than in its understanding of children.
CineVue by Lucy Popescu
Hers delivers a hard lesson about the healing power of love and acceptance with simple and unsentimental eloquence.
Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney
Hers’s stamp as a contemplative miniaturist with an eye for the inner life is unmistakeably on display in this involving, typically graceful piece.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
[A] good-natured and well-intentioned film.
The Observer (UK) by Simran Hans
The film shies away from any kind of political commentary, and as a result feels oddly sapped of fire or urgency.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
In its favor, Amanda boasts subtle, sensitive lead performances from Lacoste and Multrier, who has a rare easy naturalism for such a young performer.
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