Slalom
The French in particular have a complicated and frankly problematic history re telling stories about teenage girls coming of age as paramours of older men. When I was younger and closer to their age, I clicked with some of that, but now that I'm more the age of the creepy men of the films, it stands out as cringe, usually too obsessed with gazing at the actresses, even when directed by a woman (as this one is), and even when it seems to aspire to be some kind of condemnation of sexual predation. Lyz (Noee Abita) is a teenager aspiring to be a skiing champion who is in a training group led by former ski champion Fred (Jeremie Renier). He is a demanding and verbally abusive coach, and perhaps that plays out to a grooming strategy because so much the better when he takes a shine, based on results, and pays too much "positive" attention. Haunted in part by the long history of French films, there are moments that fall into eager and willing, though probably moreso a sort of fatalist acceptance that this is just something that happens to women, unpleasant though it is, just another step in growing up.
I think one issue in this as a me too movie is focusing on the abuse itself. The Assistant succeeds so much for not centering either the victim or predator, but rather on the people in the system around that enables it. A movie that was just scenes of a Havery Weinstein type coercing women would be an absolutely miserable watch, potentially exploitative, and not enlightening.
Anyway, I wonder how many films I formerly praised would come crashing down on rewatch.