Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.
All That Glitters is a competent French coming-of-age comedy-drama about class aspiration and female friendship. The plot follows a well-trodden social-climbing narrative with familiar beats—working-class girls fabricating identities to enter elite circles—without adding much that feels distinctive. Acting from the two leads is natural and carries the film's emotional core, though it rarely transcends the material. Cinematography is functional and unremarkable, typical of modest French productions of the era. Novelty is limited; the class-crossing deception premise has ample precedents and the film executes it capably rather than distinctively. The ending resolves tensions in a satisfying if predictable fashion, reaffirming friendship over ambition without much surprise.