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Maïwenn: from child star to writer-director

By Christopher Wallenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 20, 2012

NEW YORK — Even for a fly-on-the-wall observer, the child protection division of a police squad is not for the faint of heart. Just ask the French writer-director-actress Maïwenn. As part of the research for her third feature film, “Polisse,” which captured the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year and openson Friday, Maïwenn spent a psychically grueling several months embedded with the detectives in the Paris Child Protection Unit.

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