Set Me Free (1999 film)

Set Me Free French Emportemoi is a 1999 FrenchCanadian film by La Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963. The film heavily references the French newwave film Vivre sa vie Its my life by JeanLuc Godard.

Hanna is living on a farm with her grandparents and mentally handicapped uncle when she gets her first period. The onset of puberty and her grandmothers relatively nonsupportive explanation of it trigger her decision to return to her parents in Montreal.Returning to the city, Hanna resumes her relationships with her depressive mother, her erratic father and her brother, who is understandably usually absent from home. Hannas mother, a fashion designer, has put aside all of her artistic dreams in favour of devoting all her time to supporting Hannas father, an unpublished writer she believes to be a genius. Hannas father, distant and erratic, gets a job working for a newspaper, but soon quits, and spends all day playing chess in a caf while his wife thinks he is at work. ........

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