Synopsis
Love According to Dalva (Dalva, 2023) is a Belgian-French drama from director Emmanuelle Nicot, and you can watch it online on iFILM. One evening, twelve-year-old Dalva is pulled from her father's home and placed in care.
She dresses and carries herself like a grown woman, and at first she fights the move — all she wants is to go back to her dad. What follows is the slow, painful work of becoming a child again. A social worker named Jayden and a sharp-tongued roommate, Samia, are the first people to treat her like the kid she is. Zelda Samson holds the film in close-up almost throughout.
Nicot's feature debut took the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Critics' Week and a clutch of Belgian Magritte awards. It's quiet, unsensational filmmaking about identity and recovery, handling a hard subject with restraint rather than shock. Stream Love According to Dalva (2023) online on iFILM.
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