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Directed by Catherine Breillat | 94 minutes | 18+ | 50th Anniversary |
12:50pm Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Catherine Breillat's debut erotic summer love story was censored for a quarter of a decade... but is now unbound, in a new 4K restoration
Co-Presented by Rough Cut
In this French-language film, fourteen-year-old Alice (Charlotte Alexandra) reluctantly spends her summer holidays at her parents’ countryside home. In an attempt to escape boredom, she begins to explore her own sexuality with a worker from her father’s sawmill.
The directorial debut of uncompromising French director Catherine Breillat was completed in 1976, but it was not shown for a full 25 years, primarily due to its explicit sexual content. Its raw and provocative depiction of adolescent female sexuality led to it being banned or deemed unsuitable for distribution in many countries, including France at the time. Despite, or perhaps because of the censorship, the film gained cult status and is regarded as a milestone in feminist cinema and one of the most provocative works in the coming-of-age genre.
SIMILAR: Love (2015), Thirteen (2003), Welcome to the Dollhouse
CONTENT WARNING: Animal slaughter
"For all its perversity, A Real Young Girl stands as one of Breillat’s most amusing works" - Maria San Filippo, Senses of Cinema
"An intelligent coming-of-age story about a girl who realizes, for better or for worse, that there's no turning back." - John Petrakis, The Chicago Tribune
Country: France
Year: 1976
Language: French, Italian