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Catherine Breillat
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: Not Rated
: Fox Lorber
: Foreign, France, Erotica
: 93 min.
: French
: English
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Directed by Catherine Breillat in 1975 but withheld from release for 25 years because Breillat's producer went bankrupt, Une Vraie Jeune Fille marked the director's feature debut. Like Breillat's controversial Romance (1999), Fille is concerned with the expression of female desire, and it takes a characteristically audacious approach to its subject. Striking close-ups of male and female genitalia, various bodily fluids, and graphic sexual fantasies make up a significant portion of the film, which charts the sexual awakening of the teenaged Alice (Charlotte Alexandra), who is vacationing with her parents in the country. Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim (Hiram Keller), a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary. Une Vraie Jeune Fille was adapted by Breillat from her third novel, 1974's Le soupirail, which she was commissioned to adapt for the screen by noted producer Andre Genoves. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
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| A Real Young Girl
by DCotton
August 21, 2006 - 11:24 AM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| Good to see a young woman be both a sexual object and a complicated character as well. She confuses the hell out of a much older, studley, more experienced man, who plays with her but ends up more interested than he anticipates. She is amoral and uses sex as a tool to avoid boredom, which is what boys customarily do but we don't usually see it on film. Her relationship with her father is the interesting twist in the story, and may be Breillat's "explanation" for her behavior. |
| Early Breillat
by talltale
December 26, 2004 - 8:53 AM PST
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9 out of 11 members found this review helpful
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| It's interesting, but perhaps not surprising, how much the early work of Catherine Breillat offers themes and concerns so similar to the rest of her films (particularly the more recent "Fat Girl"). Try to imagine seeing this film when it was made (back in 1975), and you'll have a better sense of how shocking and appalling Breillat's ideas would have seemed to the movie-going public at that time. (According to the description above, this film was withheld from release for 25 years, so maybe the movie-going public should consider itself lucky--or left out.) Sex, death, depravity, bodily (and other) fluids--they're all here, front and center, and definitely not for the squeamish. Yet Breillat does more than simply rub our noses in filth (although at certain moments she comes close to doing this, to the exclusion of anything else) because her "take" on the fantasies of late adolescence is also true psychologically and worth considering--if not reveling in. (The film offers the additional pleasure of seeing once again Hiram Keller--of "Fellini's "Satyricon"--who plays the leading lady's leading fantasy boyfriend.) Breillat may be persistent and "nudgy" and in-your-face. She has things to say, however, about young women growing up in modern western society--and these are generally those things we'd prefer not to confront. Fortunately, her moviemaking skills have grown over the years (see "Brief Crossing" or "Romance" for confirmation), which makes it easier to sit through her lessons on sex and man/womanhood. |
| man oh man..where to start..
by psychodrama311
May 18, 2003 - 11:44 PM PDT
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9 out of 19 members found this review helpful
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| this movie was definitely one of a kind.. (i hope). with bizarre scenes of fetish type behavior. with wierd sexual visions floating throughout.. and a beautiful "young girl" masturbating through the whole thing. yet there seems to be a very underlining current of different moral/personal/sexual themes running throughout this movie. very weird.. very weird. can't say i would recommend it.. but i do have to say.. you have to at least see it once. |
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