Les Diables (2002)

Cautiously Recommended

France/Spain

Feature Film

Original Title: Les diables

Director: Christophe Ruggia

Writers: Olivier Lorelle, Christophe Ruggia

Cinematographer: Eric Guichard

Composer: Fowzi Guerdjou

Cast: Adele Haenel, Vincent Rottiers, Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonnaffé, Aurélia Petit

Joseph, an angry young adolescent, and his severely autistic sister Chloé have grown-up in a series of care homes, from all of which they have escaped in the hope of finding their parents, but when they finally do so and the reality doesn’t match the fantasy that they have built-up they are left with nowhere else to run, but no other choice than to keep doing so, in Ruggia’s affecting and remarkably acted if vaguely indelicate film, which generally lacks in logic. Iain.Stott