This is an inverted coming-of-age story, about both a loss of innocence and a reclamation of childhood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Both incredibly affecting and surprisingly intimate, Slalom is a striking, remarkable drama, and an impressive debut from a director to keep an eye on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2023

While her film is rooted in its characters, Slalom also goes the extra mile in using the elements and techniques specific to cinema to make this an all-encompassing experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

With a bracing and unflinching honesty, Favier details the vile, calculated sexual exploitation and abuse of a teen skiing prodigy by her much older adult trainer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Bringing the wave of #MeToo revelations across from the media to the mountains, this strikingly subjective tale of a French high-performance skier abused by her coach bites like a chill wind in Courchevel.

| Dec 5, 2021

A timely and uncomfortable film...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2021

A timely and powerful drama.

| Dec 2, 2021

A powerful, if disturbing, story of the destruction of the sacred trust between student athlete and coach.

| Dec 2, 2021

It's not an easy film, but it is a well-performed and powerful one.

| Dec 2, 2021

An unflinching look at the impact of what happens to a vulnerable teenage girl when an authority figure abuses his authority and position of power.

| Dec 2, 2021

It's effective drama but extremely difficult viewing, especially for viewers in a country that has been rocked by decades of sexual abuse scandals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2021

Although we know the situation, Favier exposes it with a certain peculiarity which open outcome reveals the dead end in which the victims find themselves [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 31, 2021

It's clear where Slalom is headed, and it wastes no time getting there - but what's really interesting in Slalom is what happens in the remaining two-thirds of the picture, which takes an unexpected direction.

| Jul 20, 2021

Slalom is convincingly raw and quietly creepy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2021

With its assured tone and sharp visual style, [Slalom] is a realistic coming-of-age film with a contemporary bite.

| Jul 16, 2021

By not falling into sentimentality and by drawing up portraits of complex characters, this film succeeds with accuracy in denouncing the various sexual abuses in the world of sports.

| Jun 9, 2021

Favier's approach is personal, not didactic, and the result is an intimate and unnerving coming of age film.

| Jun 6, 2021

It would be easy to say Slalom is a sports movie that fits into the post-MeToo world, but at the center is a coming of age tale, a narrative about the extra struggles that women endure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2021

Slalom and its nuanced narrative deftly navigate the emotional rollercoaster inherent in these circumstances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2021

Coupled with tight skiing shots that emphasize the sport's emotional intensity, Favier creates an atmosphere of overwhelming isolation. It's icy and intense viewing.

| Apr 29, 2021