La maladroite (2019)
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Isabelle Carré, Émilie Dequenne, India Hair, Damien Jouillerot, Elsa Hyvaert, Pierre Diot, Coralie Russier, Patrick Descamps, Pasquale D'Inca, Magali Woch
When an often-absent child’s injuries raise her teacher’s suspicions, a school doctor notices nothing abnormal and social services are slow to respond.
The story
Stella starts school for the first time. Cheerful, exuberant and bulimic, she is an endearing child, yet she is often absent. Her teachers notice injuries on her body; Stella claims she is clumsy, though she is being abused. Her teacher grows suspicious, but the school doctor who examines her notices nothing abnormal. Social services are slow to respond, while the family’s successive moves make their efforts more difficult. The story centers on concern for Stella as the school and social services struggle to respond.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Stella is [age not stated] and starts school for the first time. Cheerful, exuberant and bulimic, she is an endearing child, but is often absent. Her teachers notice injuries on her body, but the little girl claims she is clumsy; in reality, she is being abused. Her teacher is suspicious, but the school doctor who examines her notices nothing abnormal. Social services are slow to respond, and the family’s successive moves make their efforts more difficult. Her parents report Stella missing, but her father eventually confesses the terrible truth. This television film is a loose adaptation of Alexandre Seurat’s book of the same name, published in 2015, which itself recounts the events of the Marina Sabatier case, a French legal case related to the death of the young Marina Sabatier in [year not stated], at the age of [age not stated], following abuse inflicted by both her parents.
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