In bulk, Alice T. is ungrateful, insolent, rebellious, lying, idle, carefree, selfish, manipulative, ... Like a basic teen certainly but power 10, like a teen boosted to the extreme. Thus, Alice T. might be reduced as an ultra-effective contraceptive pill. Indeed, seeing the eponymous movie will cut you off any desire for fatherhood. For the next ten years... at least! The two main protagonists are female, a mother and her adopted daughter, and the few men are symbolically reduced to the status of anecdotal appearances. On my humble opinion, this female-centric storyline highlights an unconditional mother's love, without any male help (the mother dimension being stronger than the female one, as evidenced by a castrating post-tickle scene, for exemple), and the ineluctable consequences like the ability of a narcissistic teen to terrorize its own parent. As depressing as it may seem, this Romanian movie is quite well done, even if the director strives to concomitantly treat too many subjects: sterility and adoption, divorce, early pregnancy, adolescence, father absence, ...
Review of Alice T.
