LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC - Director's Statement This film, which takes as its principal actors young dancers aged between six and twelve, is >> back
inspired by Frank Wedekind’s novel Mine-Haha ('Laughing Waters' in a Native American dialect),
written in 1888 and subtitled 'The Corporal Education of Young Girls'.
Shot in Cinemascope, and set in a timeless present evocative of the 1960s, INNOCENCE is not,
strictly speaking, a fantasy film, but simply a child's eye vision of real life.
- Lucile Hadzihalilovic