Theo was born an unwanted child. The social services set out to find the perfect home for his adoption.
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Jeanne Herry (screenplay)
Marcelle Lean picked a real winner for her Cinefranco 2019 with this film about France’s adoption process. The adoption process is shown here in all its complications and complexity with a whole lot of people involved in finding an adopted baby a good home. PUPILLE unfolds non-chronologically as fiction though one can be sure that director Herry has done lots of research. The story follows Theo, abandoned by his biological mother (Leila Muse) as Social Service strives through many applicants to find him a suitable and loving home.
The film reveals the various emotional states of everyone involved in the process from the mother, to the accepted new adoptive mother…
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