
A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her 19th century town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also be the missionary. Attention to sexuality is everywhere: Valerie's grandmother's puritanical nature, the missionary's sermon to the town's virgins, the parish priest's attempt to seduce Va... (Full plot summary below)
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A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her 19th century town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also be the missionary. Attention to sexuality is everywhere: Valerie's grandmother's puritanical nature, the missionary's sermon to the town's virgins, the parish priest's attempt to seduce Valerie, and lusty adults at play. Valerie's nascent sexuality puts her in great danger. Can she navigate the passage from innocence to experience, a route teaming with vampires, a murderer, and an obscure family tree?
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesLike the best fairy tales, "Valerie" is voluptuously suggestive, a bit dangerous, and perfectly legible on its own subterranean terms. |
| The DissolveJudy BermanValerie And Her Week Of Wonders enjoys a richly deserved place in the international canon of timeless coming-of-age stories. |
| Under the RadarAustin TrunickViewers willing to just accept Valerie's beautiful surrealism will probably feel their time was better rewarded than those who will need to have it all figured out. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinMoments of pure and frightening clarity, mixed with images that can't be reconciled with any kind of reality. These dreams don't offer coherence, but rather a strong, deep feeling that can take hours to shake. |
| Horror.comStaci Layne WilsonA sensuous, often suspenseful fable saturated with shades of Sigmund Freud, Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, the horror comes in the form of actual, traditional fanged vampires who can shape-shift and cause all kinds of deadly mischief. |
| Electric SheepStephen ThomsonThe persistent idiosyncracy of vision -- saturated colours, dramatic angles and deep shots framed by intervening branches and cobwebs -- fashion a little world that is fully realised within its own terms and will haunt many a viewer. |
| User ReviewDimitris SThere is no place like home Valerie..... The assassination of a blossoming violet.Also known as the savage youth and how to embrace your dreams evading hell. |
| User ReviewCarl Ba surreal insight into a girl's transition into adulthood, wrapped up in a gothic tale of vampires and horror. the screen is filled with bewitching images, that entrance you with the accompanying wistful soundtack, haunting your thoughts. |
| User ReviewAl MOne of the strangest and most wonderful films you'll ever see: a weird, dreamy coming-of-age fantasy |
| User ReviewJacob GI guess it just goes to show that even though your babushka is a vampire, and your dad is a weasel disguised as Death from the Seventh Seal, and your distant cousin locks you up inside a clock in your walls and then you get burned at the stake that it'll probably end up okay as long as you get a town full of plague doctors and nuns who lost their pants to sing songs while you poke at some dude in a cage while people are having sex everywhere. or something. i'm not sure what i just watched really. but it was rad. |