Slalom

[Opens April 9 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Stunning mountain scenery highlights Charlène Favier's gripping, disturbing, relevant, predictable, 92-minute, 2020 film in which pressures and isolation increase for a talented, ambitious, determined, 15-year-old French student (Noée Abita), whose neglectful, divorced mother (Muriel Combeau) works in Marseilles, as she trains with a hard-nosed coach (Jérémie Renier), who is married to a skiing instructor (Marie Denarnaud), and other teenage skiers (Maïra Schmitt, Axel Auriant Blot, et al.) at an elite skiing school in the French Alps to become a champion professional skier, but as she increasingly shows promise the coach becomes increasingly abusive and sexually charged.
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