Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)
Léa Pool, director.
Canada, 1998, 35mm, 94 min.
French with English subtitles.

Thirteen-year-old Hanna seeks refuge from the problems at home in the local movie theatre. The year is 1963 and the film happens to be Jean-Luc Goddard's Vivre sa Vie. Hanna is captivated by Anna Karina's performance, and so she returns to see the film over and over again.

But is the sultry prostitute portrayed by Karina an appropriate role model for a girl on the brink of womanhood? Things get even more complicated when Hanna becomes obsessed with her schoolteacher, who resembles Karina, and then discovers her growing attraction to one of her girlfriends. A moving exploration of a young girl's search to find herself.

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