This is not a mystery or a thriller or a twist-filled mind-bender; it's a film about the mysteries, thrills, and twists of existing in relation to other people.

| Mar 4, 2021

Figuring out Isabelle's character is a compelling mystery, but it would have been nice for Ozon to offer a few more clues.

| Jan 21, 2021

In many respects, Isabelle's sexual odyssey is less about the money she procures or some sub-Freudian power game, but more about the simple matter of discovering her agency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2018

In any case, Young & Beautiful is more interesting once Isabelle's secret is out, when it's more about the way other people react to this prematurely jaded girl who seems to have stepped out of a Lorde song.

| Feb 16, 2018

Franois Ozon's Young & Beautiful is an accomplished trifle.

| Nov 14, 2017

It made me squirm.

| Oct 25, 2017

[Young& Beautiful] works as an effective, if chilling, satire.

| Aug 15, 2017

Francois Ozon's quiet sexual drama raises more questions than it answers.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 15, 2014

It's a candid but insightful character study about adolescent impulses that feels more insightful than exploitative.

| Jun 30, 2014

It became clear, as the movie wore on, that Ozon isn't interested in explanations, psychological insights, lessons, judgments, diagnoses, or any of the other stuff that normally preoccupies storytellers.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 19, 2014

...echoes Luis Bunuel's 1967 classic Belle de Jour in some obvious ways

| Original Score: 87/100 | Jun 13, 2014

This is a different kind of coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2014

It is a nuanced look at a young woman's exploration of her own power, and lack thereof, as she rushes headlong toward adulthood.

| Jun 5, 2014

Is she a virgin, or a whore? Surprise, she's both! This French drama about a teenager is infuriating in its reductive stereotypes.

| Jun 5, 2014

Prostitution in polite society is still a nettle fearfully grasped. You see, society is not polite and it's about time movies stopped peddling that fluff.

| May 20, 2014

The result is a movie that feels more like a lab report than any cogent exploration of the human condition, but again, it's this clinical approach that best approximates the female psyche as girls come of age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2014

Never amounts to anything more than its title's shallow descriptors.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2014

Ozon's male gaze peers at a middle-class high-school girl selling sex to older men

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2014

Ozon keeps things simmering without quite boiling over, even when convention might demand it.

| May 15, 2014

Trying to figure out Isabelle keeps the viewer engaged, and Vacth's focused acting justifies her being almost continually in the frame.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2014