sciatrix

The French writer Maria NDiaye wrote the actual intentionally-creepy version of this story! To the extent that, reading your first paragraph, I was like "whoa, they made Ladivine into a movie?? But ahahaha. As you can imagine. Once I clicked on the link, I discovered that the movie is a different proposition altogether. The book is definitely extremely disturbing because it means to be extremely disturbing, though, which is at least a step up from extremely disturbing while trying to be heartwarming. :-p