Cert TBA
121 mins
BBFC advice: TBA
Oh, there is such a good story trying to fight its way out of Agnes B's My Name Is Hmmm...
But the director becomes far too distracted with meaningless tangents when she should be concentrating on extracting its dramatic potential.
The plot surrounds an 11-year-old French girl (Lou-Lelia Demerliac), who is sexually abused by her out-of-work father (Jacques Bonnaffe).
Thus, when she goes on a school trip, she takes the opportunity of running away.
She thumbs a lift from a Scottish lorry driver (Douglas Gordon) and the two strike up an unusual (completely platonic) friendship.
This is promising material but Agnes B allows the big moments to slip through her fingers by giving more emphasis to strange segues into animations or hand-held dream-like sequences.
Instead she should have focused on the more obvious.
For example, Gordon's character can speak French one minute but has no clue about the basic language the next. The same applies to the young girl.
And while we know why she has run away, there needed to be more background explanation about why her new-found friend would not take the young girl straight to the police, let alone try to evade them.
If he believed her story about being abused why didn't he deal with the situation in the same way everyone else would?
And don't get me started on the final scenes.... suffice to say, why, why why?
Agnes B has a much longer record as a producer than as a director and writer and when I discovered the memorably awful Trash Humpers was among her 'credits' much was explained.
Here, she had a chance of making a piercing drama but she let her need for artistic exploration get in the way.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 4.5/10