A Real Young Girl

1976

1h 33m

Drama

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71%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

47%

1,000+ Ratings

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

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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

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

A surreal voyage into adolescent sexuality.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 19, 2001

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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

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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

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 31, 2006

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 4/5

Aug 9, 2005

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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

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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

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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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

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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

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dave j

Monday, October 1, 2013 (1975) A Real Young Girl/ Une Vraie Jeune Fille (In French with English subtitles) ADULT DRAMA/ AUTO-BIOGRAPHY A no- plot adaption from her own novel of the same name, directed by controversial director Catherine Breillat starring Charlotte Alexandra as Alice Bonnard who's just coming home to visit her parents for the week from her studies who's just turned the age of 17. She then spends the rest of the movie dwelling on finding her sexual identity or finding puberty since she loves touching her private parts with inanimate objects such as spoons and bicycle seats. And loves teasing model-like guys who work for her extramarital dad. What more is there to say except that the director's female characters teases the men in the movie as much as the director loves to tease it's viewers. Although, I couldn't understand what to make of it, I had to semantically come to the conclusion that because it's adapted from Catherine Breillat own personal novel that it can also be defined as an autobiography as well since the actress is performing abnormal acts average people would not even try such as peeing without the seat down or on the ground so that the guy she likes can see it too- this is not normal stuff but can be expressed through into her films. Whereas, she refuses any advances made from any of the young men too. Making the assumption that the director Catherine Breillat is expressing her peculiar and rather odd acts through the actresses who star in her movies since much of her controversial films have no plot nor do they tell us anything we don't already know for it may be another side we don't quite know about Catherine Breillat herself. 2.5 out of 4 stars

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Catherine Breillat

Director

Charlotte Alexandra

Alice Bonnard

Hiram Keller

Pierre-Evariste Renard

Rita Meiden

Mrs. Bonnard

Bruno Balp

Mr. Bonnard

Shirley Stoler

Grocer in Aupom

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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
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.7K
Runtime: 1h 33m