A strange feature film adapted from a strange short novel, melancholic and bewitching : when you watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, you can't tell if you're watching an apprenticeship film, a horror film, a thriller, a teenage love movie, a feminist movie...You don't know what you're seeing, but it's very upsetting. Rynn; a 13 years old girl, (played by Jodie Foster) lives alone in a large house. Her father is dead but she pretends he's still alive. People mean her harm - especially Frank, the landlord's son (played by Martin Sheen) and the landlord herself, Cora, whom Rynn decides to get rid of... She also meets a young magician, Mario, who wants to help her. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, is neither Catcher in the Rye, Carrie or Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy), but its plot takes a bit from all of these and in turn generates its own imprint and its own mythology. It's the kind of film you talk about 15 years later still not understanding what it meant.