Lou

Lou! Journal infime

Twelve-and-a-half-year-old Lou lives alone with her absurdly immature mother, Emma. She spends her days playing with her new cat, eating at the local Chinese restaurant, and spying on her dreamy neighbor Tristan, obsessively journaling his every move. Her mom has been in a funk lately, eating junk food in her pajamas, playing video games, and generally behaving more like a teen than her on-the-cusp-of-adolescence daughter. But all this changes with the arrival of the new bohemian neighbor, Richard, who ignites her goofy mother’s romantic interest and triggers and series of increasingly embarrassing episodes that test the long-suffering Lou’s patience and sympathy. Director Julien Neel has turned the French comic and animated TV series into quirky, mom and daughter buddy movie, with vibrant and brilliantly kitschy bubble-gum production and design and plenty of cringe-worthy, awkward comedic situations, as it humorously celebrates the bonds of female friendship.