'La Gradiva' Review: Astounding Cannes Award-Winning Debut Is One for the Ages

A major work played in a minor key, cinematographer-turned-director Marine Atlan's magnificent, melancholic and moving feature directorial debut "La Gradiva" is one of those true discoveries that you only get a few times in life. It's not just an illuminating portrait of youth, but a potent film about history, the now, and the future, gently reflecting on big questions through the eyes of a generation right on the cusp of having to face down all of it as adults. At the same time that it engages with these more existential, increasingly heavy questions, it also remains wonderfully . . .