7.5/10
A Quebec film following the lives of four young girls as they bounce around from one foster home to another, some occasionally landing in behavioural correction institutions. With the girls aged 6, 12, 15 and 18, and each story taking place during a specific season, it's easy to read the narrative as a cohesive whole - these four fictional girls easily could be one girl unto herself. The movie is critical of the foster care system, detailing how these kids are taken in only to be spit out again unchanged (or worse), over and over. However, it doesn't get its criticism across by pounding its fist on the table - it's subtle, and all the better for it. Only a charge of pedophilia levelled at one of the male caregivers late in the film rings of shrill and unnecessary melodrama. That and the fact that the few males that do appear in the movie are all scum - I counted 4 males: one a possible pedophile, two were rapists, and one tried to lure a 12 year old girl into his car - lost it some points from me.
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