Ten year old Violet, overweight according to her divorced parents, is not feeling well. When a malignant brain-tumor is discovered her father abducts her from the hospital in order to make a last trip together. Over the mountains to Milan, where her mother is singing in an opera, and to the sea. Eventually they wind up in the family cottage in France, joined by mother and father's girlfriend. On the road father lost his watch, but Violet found a dog, which sometimes responds to the name 'chien'. At the end Violet is tired and goes to sleep. For ever it seems.
A movie about life, love and death. Big words, but nothing in this little gem is too big or sentimental. The girl that is going to die needs no words on life and death. Alone, high up in the mountains between Switzerland and Italy, she understands her fate. Something to do with a butterfly and flying. That we, as audience, cry a little for her doesn't matter. Violet doesn't cry, she saw a butterfly and rescued a dog that reeked of oil. And when father's girlfriend prepares a wholesome salad which certainly won't make Violet fatter then she is, her mother makes her fried bananas.
"Le petit prince a dit" is one of those rare films that seem to be true. A film about real people experiencing real joy and real sorrow. Violet will die, but her story is also a happy one, in which father hits the breaks when the song they sing together says 'stop'. A film as good and bitter as life itself.
A movie about life, love and death. Big words, but nothing in this little gem is too big or sentimental. The girl that is going to die needs no words on life and death. Alone, high up in the mountains between Switzerland and Italy, she understands her fate. Something to do with a butterfly and flying. That we, as audience, cry a little for her doesn't matter. Violet doesn't cry, she saw a butterfly and rescued a dog that reeked of oil. And when father's girlfriend prepares a wholesome salad which certainly won't make Violet fatter then she is, her mother makes her fried bananas.
"Le petit prince a dit" is one of those rare films that seem to be true. A film about real people experiencing real joy and real sorrow. Violet will die, but her story is also a happy one, in which father hits the breaks when the song they sing together says 'stop'. A film as good and bitter as life itself.