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| | Offscreen :: La Petite Aurore, L’enfant Martyre: Revisiting a Classic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | At first the scenes between Aurore and her stepmother are played out in a creepy tension, with Aurore overstating her emotional distance by continually referring to her stepmother as “madame.” The father defers in everything to his new wife and believes all the lies she says about Aurore. |
 | | Marie-Louis slaps Aurore, squeezes her arms, scalds her, forces her to eat soap, locks her in the attic, lashes her with a leather belt, and eventually pushes her down the attic stairs. |
 | | As the coroner says after examining Aurore’s corpse, it is a wonder she survived as long as she did with the over 50 bruises and internal damage she incurred. |
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