Alice, 20, lives in Normandy and has a gift for wool designs. By chance, she meets Agnes, a rich Parisian lady who helps her get in to a prestigious school of Applied Arts. Alice leaves everything behind to start a new life alone in Paris. There, she meets Antoine, Agnes' son, and they soon fall passionately in love. Antoine finds in Alice a sincerity and a simplicity that free him from his bourgeois environment, while Alice enters the fascinating world of the high society. Here she finds herself in a multi-layered borderline realm separating youth and adulthood, working class and upper class, fashion and high art, the provinces and Paris. "I can't think of another film that so intelligently, consistently, and subtly articulates the conflicts in its young heroine's life while eschewing snark and hyperbole." (Artforum)
Alice's handmade designs catapult her into bourgeois Paris, where she is in danger of being torn apart by love and elitism.
Alice, 20, lives in Normandy and has a gift for wool designs. By chance, she meets Agnes, a rich Parisian lady who helps her get in to a prestigious school of Applied Arts.
Alice leaves everything behind to start a new life alone in Paris. There, she meets Antoine, Agnes' son, and they soon fall passionately in love. Antoine finds in Alice a sincerity and a simplicity that free him from his bourgeois environment, while Alice enters the fascinating world of the high society.
Here she finds herself in a multi-layered borderline realm separating youth and adulthood, working class and upper class, fashion and high art, the provinces and Paris.
"I can't think of another film that so intelligently, consistently, and subtly articulates the conflicts in its young heroine's life while eschewing snark and hyperbole." (Artforum)