A Real Young Girl

Name: A Real Young Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: June 1, 2001
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller

2001

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Cinema Village Features | Release Date: June 1, 2001 | Unrated

Starring: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller

Summary: Completed in 1975, this first film by Catherine Breillat, the director of "Romance" (1999), revolves around the return of a young girl from boarding school to her parents house for the summer.

Director: Catherine Breillat

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 89 min

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Lisa Alspector

The theories about sexuality and trauma artfully advanced in this previously unreleased 1975 debut of director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) are more nuanced and intuitive than those of most schools of psychology. Read full review

John Petrakis

Breillat has long been fascinated with the idea that women are not allowed to go through puberty in private but instead seem to be on display for all to watch, a situation that has no parallel with boys. A Real Young Girl seems acutely aware of this paradox. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Crude, unpolished, yet curiously dreamy. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Neither cheerfully naughty nor suffused with gauzy prurience, it evokes a time of turbulent (and often ugly) emotions with disquieting intensity. Read full review

David Sterritt

The delayed release of this 1975 drama provides an interesting view of her (Breillat) early development as a world-class filmmaker. Read full review

J. Hoberman

A philosophical gross-out comedy rudely presented from the perspective of a sullen, sexually curious 14-year-old. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

A test of endurance, and not just because you need a rather stronger word than "explicit" to describe this long-unreleased, self-consciously provocative film. Read full review

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JohnH

Oct 20, 2006

Brilliant iconoclastic investigation into adolescent girl's sexuality. It reaches places other so-called coming-of age films never touch on. Disgraceful that our so-called free society has made us wait 30 years to see what is, for a first film, a luminous triumph.

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Feyros

Nov 25, 2015

One of the wrst moevit ieos oekso dkseesi esok di was liekflying inthe sky anbit noo this fking sexualtrtyi beast was not going to bei ym way but holy **** yes it was and i was Crying aasin fsijofsajfoi sjaifjso o!!! i wcant belvieve htis

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