Reviewed by Byron Potau.  Viewed at the Billy Wilder Theatre as part of the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Writer/director Sylvie Verheyde’s autobiographical Stella is the film so many films like it wish they could be.  Told from the point of view of its young protagonist, it is direct, honest, and completely unpretentious, not once … Continue reading Stella (Sylvie Verheyde, 2009): France