The new fame, the lusty fickle kind bred by social media, is at the center of the startlingly bold French drama “Wild Diamond.” 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.
(Cited from the full review in Variety.) It is marketed as “Wild Diamond” in English, but “Diamond in the Rough” would be a better translation.
Variety is a site that consistently gives lower ratings to films with female nudity and often even openly criticizes such nudity. I do not take their opinions and reviews into consideration.
Your opinion is directly contradicted by this review, in which Variety gushed over this film.
This particular review was written by Owen Gleiberman, who is one of the top film critics, and arguably the most entertaining. It is written very well, describes the film in such detail and portrays its flavor so vividly that I can determine not just what is about, but whether I would like it or not, irrespective of his conclusions. To me, that is the essence of good criticism. Frankly, it’s one of the best reviews I’ve ever read, even though I strongly suspect that I would disagree with his evaluation. (I haven’t seen the film, and his praise doesn’t motivate me to do so.)
(I disagree with his conclusions at least as often as I agree, but that’s not what makes a good critic. I don’t want to learn whether he liked the movie, but whether I would like it. After all, some things are just a matter of taste, and I need enough information to know whether a film is to my taste. Like the late Roger Ebert, Gleiberman is a good writer who tells me what I need to know. His reviews are also entertaining, which is a nice lagniappe.)
Dawid, you do not respect Variety’s reviews enough to take them into consideration, yet you read them enough to know their stance on female nudity right down to the present day. Truly you are one weird, obsessed mama jama.
Naturally you’ll provide citations where Variety explicitly states such things.
Right?