Innocence (2004)

Based on the novella Mine-Haha: The Corporal Education of Young Girls (1st ed. 1888), by Frank Wedekind.

Life at a slightly surrealistic boarding school for little girls. Girls arrive inside a coffin, practice ballet, and when they get older (after the first mestruation) they are sent away.

This film is an attempt to poetically capture the childhood of girls. Although intellectually I acknowledge that it conveys something of the blend of insouciance and fear of the unknown that people children's minds, I was more than a little bored by its excessive repetitiveness.

Curiously, there is another film version of Wedekind's novella called The Fine Art of Love: Mine-Haha (2005).

Rating: 47