gamine

British actor Carey Mulligan’s soft eyes and fair complexion are typical of a kind of demure gamine who gets typecast as an underestimated heroine.

The first looks to grace the runway were what might be called “gamine gothic.”

Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.

With her head held high and her clear, unwavering gaze, a dowdy backpack strapped to her back, she doesn’t resemble one of pop culture’s fantasy gamines.

What happens next is surprising and touching, and upends your notions about Anaïs and what this love story — with its flighty gamine, its extramarital affair, its routine heterosexual coupling — should be and what it is.