By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic As tender, painful and intimate as an open caesarean scar, writer-director Mona Achache’s drama-documentary Little Girl Blue examines the fraught ...

But the involvement of an Oscar-winning actor in “Little Girl Blue” never feels like a strategic ploy, not least because Achache cops to the artifice of the entire enterprise, revealing all ...

Early in Little Girl Blue, we glimpse the 2016 death certificate for a 63-year-old woman. It is recorded as a suspected suicide by hanging. Years later, Mona Achache is surrounded by all the chaos ...

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings ...

Little Girl Blue opens a small but revealing window on mid-century French literary culture and several towering figures within it, including the writers Jean Genet and Marguerite Duras ...