

"Pic's most troubling scene involves a special commission, in which Hanah instructs her daughter to strip". ^ "À l'école, ses camrades l'insultent et la rejettent".^ "Violetta turns into a Lolita figure, standing forlornly in the school playground in tight hot pants".^ "mother Hanna (Isabelle Huppert) is away living a bohemian lifestyle, mixing with other artists of dubious character".

^ "Violetta vit avec sa grand-mère et souffre de l'absence de sa mère".^ "selfishness is consistent throughout the film but particularly in the early days of their working relationship".Autobiographical events from the 1970s are shaped into a fairytale-like narrative illuminating the abusive nature of Ionesco’s relationship with her mother Irina and eternal arguments over the limits of artistic freedom. Painful personal experience is distilled into poignant drama in Eva Ionesco’s promising first feature My Little Princess. German magazine Focus found Anamaria Vartolomei was convincing as a young girl whose life eventually turns into a nightmare because of her mother's artistic ambitions in 1970s Paris. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Antoine Dupuis.Anamaria Vartolomei as Violetta Giurgiu.Eventually Hanna's right of custody for her twelve-year-old daughter is at stake.

Hanna even coerces Violetta mercilessly into cooperation by withholding her food in case she doesn't agree to pose for increasingly daring photographs. Then Mamie dies and Hanna's photographs are about to unequivocally overstep the line of acceptability. At school she is eventually frequently insulted and rejected. She starts exploiting her daughter who by transforming into a kind of Lolita becomes increasingly alienated from other children of her age. Only every now and then her mother visits her daughter but during these occasions it occurs to her that her daughter could be a potential model. In order to succeed as an artist she doesn't worry about dating men of questionable reputation. Her mother Hanna tries to make a living on taking photographs and concentrates on her dreams to become a famous artist. Violetta is raised by her grandmother ("Mamie", the French equivalent of "Grandma").
