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A Real Young Girl

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A precocious 1960s teen (Charlotte Alexandra) explores her sexuality while lusting after a sawmill worker (Hiram Keller).

Critics Reviews

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John Petrakis Chicago Tribune An intelligent coming-of-age story about a girl who realizes, for better or for worse, that there's no turning back. Rated: 3/4 Nov 15, 2001 Full Review A.O. Scott New York Times A surreal voyage into adolescent sexuality. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 19, 2001 Full Review Sean Burns Crooked Marquee Gross, shocking and undeniably the work of a major artist, even when it feels like a work in progress. Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com While the film could be construed as pornographic in nature, the intention of the narrative function is to examine the psyche and sexuality of a young girl within the political and social context of Niort, France in 1963. Rated: A Apr 11, 2016 Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion To Breillat innocence is little more an imaginary state, something to yearn for while dealing with life, one orifice at a time Mar 21, 2010 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 31, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This movie is a french masterpiece about young age desire. Intense, deep, subversive. Probably in my too 3 movies of all the times Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Exposes the dichotomy of what a girl is thinking versus the behavioral rules pulling her apart during adolescence. This film is hot, erotic and graphic but worthy on many levels. There are cultural and familial boundaries controlling her behavior when around people but then there are the desires driven by a young, beautiful body and a tidal wave of hormones pounding at the door. Something's gotta give. More profound is the hostile feminism and demoralizing French etiquette which makes life miserable for everyone. She sums up her feelings riding home from school for summer break in the beginning with the thought "I hate people." You will notice that sentiment never changes when watching the final scene. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member ???????????????????? ???????? ????? ??? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review sarfaraz a A Real Young Girl (French: Une vraie jeune fille) directed by controversial writer and director Catherine Breillat. The film is based upon her 4th novel Soupirail. Catherine's novels shed lights on erotic lifestyle or should we say misadventure in the lives of young mostly underage women. Starring Charlotte Alexandra in the central role - Coming-of-age film - controversial for bearing an explicit scene of Charlotte tied while a young man pushes worm inside her va*g*na. Charlotte is 14 she lives with her somewhat resolute mother and supportive father. This is not a mundane story rather something that forces the ordinary parents of different areas of the world to have a look at the circumstances that might entangle their family-members; or at-least the whole lot of the world is going through since the times unknown. Do not expect the borderline to have been brought down by this film - it is pure attempt to highlight the neglected acts, committed under the very eyes of ours. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Catherine Breillat's, the provocative French feminist director, explicit film about the sexual awakening of a girl in her puberty stage in the '70s. A typical equation mark between Sex & Death as which being further explored & more often seen in her later work. An absolute self-indulgence style just like every other work of Breillat. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member This was not her best movie but it had some interesting scenes. It drags quite a bit. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A precocious 1960s teen (Charlotte Alexandra) explores her sexuality while lusting after a sawmill worker (Hiram Keller).
Director
Catherine Breillat
Producer
Pierre-Richard Muller
Screenwriter
Catherine Breillat
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Box Office (Gross USA)
$15.7K
Runtime
1h 33m