I didn’t appreciate the movie enough because of how uncomfortable it first made me, until I watched “The Horror of Girlhood | Explored through Valerie and her Week of Wonders”, a video essay on YouTube by Final Girl Digital.
And yes, the director is a man, but the writer of the story is a woman, and it’s something most people don’t pay attention to.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970
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