A troubled young nurse (Isild Le Besco) working in a mountain town on the Franco-Swiss border and depressed by her love life, her relationship with her estranged father, and her boring small-town existence, commits an impulsive act of violence and then is assigned to care for the teenage boy she has shot. The French title of this tale of anger, guilt, and redemption translates literally as “not gentle.” Le Besco made her directorial debut with Half-Price at the 2006 Women with Vision festival. 2006, France/Switzerland, 35mm, in French with English subtitles, 81 minutes.
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