In the skyscraper across from their building lives the boy Tristan ( Joshua Maze, who looks like Thomas Sangster circa Love Actually) whom Lou’s literally got her eye on since she secretly observes him every day from her window, and she jots down his every move in her journal. However, sales for formats in which young girls can watch this by themselves should logically be through the roof.Īs a result, their top-floor apartment is stuffed to the rafters with useless items of decoration, and their home’s colorful jumble and disarray extends to the entire town mother and daughter seem to live in, which feels like a production designer’s wet dream ( Sylvie Olive was the lucky one who got to design it all). Local box office in France was a somewhat discouraging $1.5 million, which is likely what the art department had available for bric-a-brac in bright colors alone. For everyone else, this will mostly be quirky and cute of the trying-too-hard variety, so older family members who might have been wooed by the star power of Ludivine Sagnier and Nathalie Baye, who play the protagonist’s mother and grandmother respectively, will be disappointed. Art-directed to within an inch of its entirely synthetic life, this whimsical and colorful tale is squarely aimed at tween girls for whom “precious” and “twee” might function as marks of quality. A 12-year-old blonde cutie is hopelessly in love with the boy who lives in the wonky skyscraper next door in Lou! (Lou! Journal Infime), a live-action adaptation of the popular French comic books directed by the series’ original creator, Julien Neel.
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