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16.05.2024 - 02:45 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Religion, Karl Marx said, is the opiate of the masses. Today, he would likely say that the opiate of the masses is fame — the desire for it, the things you have to do to get it, the fragmentary nature of it (the old “15 minutes” is now, in many cases, more like 15 seconds), and everything it’s supposed to bring you. The new fame, the lusty fickle kind bred by social media, is at the center of “Wild Diamond,” a startlingly bold and true French drama that premiered today at Cannes.
It tells the story of Liane (Malou Khebizi), a 19-year-old glam trainwreck who lives with her mother and kid sister in the town of Fréjus in Southern France. Liane’s entire existence is driven by her compulsion to connect with the up-from-nowhere apparatus of fame, the kind that transforms people on Instagram and TikTok — and, the subject of “Wild Diamond,” reality TV — into overnight spangly vessels of adoration. In the first scene, Liane is in a department store, stealing things, because that’s the only way she can afford to tart herself up into what she wants to look like.
The look is no mere look — it’s a state of being. She’s wearing short-short jeans and a skintight mesh top, with hair that consists of a blonde layer that falls over a dark-roots layer. She has had her breasts done, and she’s had hydraulic acid injected into her lips, an amateur procedure that gives her the pout of a party doll.
With all that laid atop her natural beauty, she’s striking enough in a harshly voluptuous way to look like Brigitte Bardot as a dysfunctional shopping-mall Barbie. Liane preens and twerks and taunts her friends and posts her selfies. That’s her life.
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“Hater says I’m superficial,” muses one of the TikTok influencers who rule the version of the world that obsesses 19-year-old Liane in Agathe Riedinger’s Cannes Competition entry Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut). “Yes, I’m superficial,” continues the influencer, “but that doesn’t mean I’m a moron.”
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