The subject of Wild Diamond is 19-year-old Liane Pougy (Malou Khebizi) from Fréjus, a small town in southern France, who boasts about having 500,000 internet followers and wants to be cast in Miracle Island, a reality TV show, to gain more fame — her generation’s idea of love.
This conceit places Agathe Riedinger’s dramatic directorial debut somewhere between a psychological satire and a sociological documentary. Liane encourages her pudgy little sister and another chubby tot, “Don’t be afraid to be sexy.” And Riedinger knows there is a media industry primed to take advantage of that corrupted naïveté.
Comments