Girl

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Girl

2023

1h 27m

Drama

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Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Small and slight in scale but sensitively drawn, this thoughtful feature debut from Adura Onashile has a quiet power, much of which is channelled through the wary eyes of the remarkable Lukumuena.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 26, 2023

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Writer-director Adura Onashile evokes the squelching intimacies between women, be they friends or blood relatives, bonds that can be both thrilling and suffocating.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 22, 2023

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Dwight Brown

DwightBrownInk.com

What’s on view is way too sad for way too long as this small drama is overshadowed by its fancy production elements. Yet, the directing technique exhibited by filmmaker Adura Onashile, in her first film, is promising.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 1, 2023

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Calum Cooper

Cinerama Film

Although it is frequently melancholic, hope underpins Girl and makes it so absorbing. It does not sugarcoat life’s difficulties, yet, like many people surrounding Grace and Ama, it lends a helping hand of understanding.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 17, 2024

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

‘…in a media where immigrants are regularly demonised for political gain, Girl makes a point just be existing in the mainstream at all; it’s not hard to empathise with Grace’s situation and easy to be moved by her fragile predicament…

Rated: 4/5

Dec 8, 2023

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Sophie Terakes

FILMINK (Australia)

… a rich, moving and complex story of love and hope; the film merely lacks the depth to properly convey it.

Rated: 16/20

Nov 22, 2023

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Déborah Lukumuena

Grace

Danny Sapani

Samuel

Le'Shantey Bonsu

Ama

Ayesha Antoine

Lisa

Caroline Deyga

Mhairi

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Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.

Director: Adura Onashile
Producer: Ciara Barry, Rosie Crerar
Screenwriter: Adura Onashile, Adura Onashile
Production Co: BBC Film, Barry Crerar, BFI Film Fund
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 27m

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