A Weird Kid Smells Her Way to Existential Enlightenment in 'The Five Devils'

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A Weird Kid Smells Her Way to Existential Enlightenment in 'The Five Devils'
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One part off-the-wall fantasy, one part domestic melodrama, the French film hitting theaters Friday is a revelation.

, is one such independent thinker with an insatiable appetite for existential enlightenment. Vicky is in some ways a prototypical cinematic weird kid—a gifted outsider who’s bullied by her peers—and in others like no weird kid type we’ve ever seen before.

Vicky keeps jars of peculiar scented mementos; she has, for example, multiple containing the unused milking grease that she wipes from her hands after slathering her mother with it before her winter swims in a nearby lake. Vicky’s witchiness starts to look more like actual witchcraft after she swipes an unmarked bottle in the bag of her visiting aunt Julia , concocts a potion, takes a whiff, and passes out.

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