Ava 2017

Ava 2017

Ava 2017
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance | 22 December 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother, Maud decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run and later they have a big adventure.

User review:

What a poignant but simple tale of a thirteen years old girl who lives with her baby sister and single mother and who discovers one day that she will slowly get blind in a few months. Then she becomes awry, especially as a teen. She steals a dog from a vagrant, a gypsy in his twenties, a wayward young gypsy searched by the police. With him, the young girl will try to get pleasure in life before getting prisoner of the forever darkness. You can think some minutes about a sort of BONNIE AND CLYDE scheme. A desperate but no totally hopeless story however.

Director: Léa Mysius
Writers: Léa Mysius (scenario), Paul Guilhaume (collaboration)
Stars: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano
Country: France
Language: French | Spanish
Release Date: 22 December 2017 (USA)
Also Known As: Ava
Filming Locations: Gironde, France