The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Crude, unpolished, yet curiously dreamy.
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France · 1976
1h 29m
Director Catherine Breillat
Starring Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Maiden, Bruno Balp
Genre Drama
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Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, 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.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Crude, unpolished, yet curiously dreamy.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The delayed release of this 1975 drama provides an interesting view of her (Breillat) early development as a world-class filmmaker.
A philosophical gross-out comedy rudely presented from the perspective of a sullen, sexually curious 14-year-old.
Chicago Tribune by 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.
New York Post by 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.
Chicago Reader by 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.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Neither cheerfully naughty nor suffused with gauzy prurience, it evokes a time of turbulent (and often ugly) emotions with disquieting intensity.
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