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Catimini

2012 · 111 min Drama
6.8 / 10 · TMDB

Cathy, 6, is taken by a social worker to a foster home in the countryside, where she slowly gets used to the strict rules imposed by her foster mother Réjeanne. Fortunately, her foster father, Reynald, is kind and gentle with the girl and patiently helps her break through her shell. Kayla, 12, is sent to a group home where she gets to know Morgane, a rebellious teenager who’s planning to run away. At about the same time, Manu is released from the system on the day she turns 18, but she finds it difficult to adjust to her solitary existence outside of the system. All four meet up at a reception honoring a foster family with whom they’ve all previously lived.

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Year 2012
Country Canada
Genre Drama
Director Nathalie Saint-Pierre
Runtime 111 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.8/10 (8 votes)

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The director constructs the narrative through parallel stories, building subtle psychological portraits of children touched by the foster care system. It explores not loud dramas, but the quiet, everyday traumas of alienation and the search for connection, relying on the restrained yet expressive performances of the young actresses.

What lingers after the viewing is a piercing and unsentimental immersion into the fragile inner worlds of its heroines, where hope breaks through layers of pain and mistrust. A film that earns its emotional weight with honesty. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Nathalie Saint-Pierre

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