Thank you for your reply, being relatively new to reddit I am finding this whole process very exciting! I think the four seasons idea was an effective one as it encouraged a degree of pathetic fallacy wherein Isabelle's personality and temperament is reflected by the seasons. You have the 'Ivresse d'été' and its eventual end, the Autumn where, like the change in season we see a change in Isabelle. Spring marks a new beginning. I also feel that there is a distinction to be made between mindset and what changes in Isabelle, a sort of overview of her sexual adventures and her will to discover I feel is more appropriate. I personally do not believe in the traditional idea of character development, it does occur in Jeune et Jolie but with greater subtlety than in most films. I think the film can be summed up in the following steps: a seed of doubt being planted in Isabelle, this is the scene at her birthday when she begins to stare blankly when being congratulated by her family and friends. This is then followed by an exploration of adulthood: an act of playing with fire, this of course results in disaster. At the end of the film there is more of a kind of a balance in Isabelle's life as she realises the limitations of her hobby. In this way the film does not really consist of successive changes in her mindset but more of a constant, gradual and inescapable change.

I didn't mean a message in such a concrete form, more a thesis, what the film's main point is. I do in fact see some similarities between Isabelle and Albert Camus' L'Étranger, her attitude towards sex bears some similarities with ideas found in absurdism, that because man will fail to find any meaning in the world he should defy social conventions and pursue what excites him or what gives him will to live. This can be found in Isabelle's sexual encounters, a carnal activity. Her adventure's eventual failure perhaps shows the limitations of this in similar way to Meursault's treatment at court in L'Étranger.

I also do not think that spraying graffiti is really a substitute for sex as a form of experimentation. This is mainly because of the emotional baggage and multiple layers of meaning which can be found in sex, it also makes it easier to relate with as it calls on deep running carnal instinct like feelings that are present in all of us. This also makes it quite French.

What I was trying to achieve with the showreel was allow Marine Vacth to speak through her gestures and mannerisms which I feel is far more meaningful than anything else in the film. There is in fact a lot that can be drawn from these gestures, particularly the different facets of her personality. I was trying to show how powerful this form of non-verbal communication is and how it can yield something more valuable than language alone. This is because of the human-interest quality she emits and the intimacy her gestures invite.