Editor’s Note
This review highlights a compelling debut feature film that explores the ambition and complexity of a young woman obsessed with reality TV fame. The nuanced portrayal promises both depth and impact.
At 19, Liane, with no prospects, has only one obsession: to shine on a reality TV show. A first feature film as nuanced as it is impactful.
Malou Khebizi as a complex young woman, both gullible and tenacious.
It took time for fiction to take hold of reality TV as it swept through France starting with ‘Loft Story’. Very recently, the series ‘Culte’ recounted this change of era in the audiovisual world from the point of view of production and behind the scenes.
‘Diamant brut’, the first feature film by Agathe Riedinger, which was honored in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival, takes a different approach: it stages the idea that a teenager can have of such a program. In this case, the only desirable elsewhere to project oneself towards.
Liane, 19, lives on the outskirts of Fréjus with her mother (Andréa Bescond), who is in social difficulty, and her little sister. While the failure…