‘La Gradiva’ Review: A Brutally Tender Study of Teenage Promise and Fragility That Marks the Arrival of a Major New Filmmaker

At 2 hours 25 minutes, Marine Atlan’s stunning debut, “La Gradiva,” is long if you run a stopwatch. But by any other measure it is as quick as a breath — a deep, ragged but restorative breath — of seasalty, basalty air. It’s the first sniff of adulthood and the last gasp of childhood for […]