A Real Young Girl

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 ...more

Like some of Catherine Breillat's other efforts, this film opts for near-shock recognition instead of heartfelt examination of the subject of budding female sexuality, yet offers so many fascinating takes on it that one can't help but find the film original and probing. The strong undercurrent of human comedy lends the feature some variety, instead of being a straight-faced, earnest look at raging hormones, and despite the director's sometimes too-obvious visual parallels and metaphors, the film ...more