The Five Devils

8-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne. When her estranged aunt Julia suddenly returns to town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel a past replete with family secrets.

Cast

Adèle Exarchopoulos

as Joanne Soler

Sally Dramé

as Vicky Soler

Swala Emati

as Julia Soler

Moustapha Mbengue

as Jimmy Soler

Daphné Patakia

as Nadine

Patrick Bouchitey

as Le père de Joanne

Hugo Dillon

as Jeff

Antonia Buresi

as La mère de famille

Noée Abita

as La serveuse en rollers

Charlotte Bon Bornier

as La petite fille blonde

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"Vicky" (Sally Dramé) lives with her school swimming coach mother "Joanne" (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and fireman father "Jimmy" (Moustapha Mbengue). Despite a fair degree of quite nasty teasing from her schoolmates, she is a happy enough child who has an astonishing gift. She has the most acute sense of...

badelf

Léa Mysius has created a fascinating study here in The Five Devils. It reminds me a lot of Kubrick's horror, The Shining. Both films revolve around a protagonist that is a child gifted with the "Shining", the gift of "seeing" what others do not. The common thread is that the gift is really a metapho...

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