32 reviews
Only for psychosexual drama enthusiasts
"A Real Young Girl" is a slice-of-summer-life flick which follows a 17ish school girl's sexual exploration during a summer vacation with her parents on their farm. A brave and visceral character study, this first outing for controversial auteur Catherine Breillat spends 90% of the run examining the fantasies, autoerotic experimentation, and eventual heterosexual encounters of the girl who seems sexually fascinated with all things liquid. Though the film's darkish undercurrents of sexual aberration do portend better things to come from Breillat, it is not particularly interesting as a stand alone piece. Circa 1976 with no apparent remastering, the audio/video quality is poor with color shifts and graininess. Not for those squeamish about graphic sexual content, this film should play best with those interested in psychosexual dramas (B-)
A young girl's dirty thoughts...and I mean DIRTY!
No, I couldn't hate this movie but on the other hand it also clearly wasn't made for me. It's perhaps a movie some females can still recognize themselves in, till some extend at least. For me it was just hard to identify with the characters and all of her weird, sexual orientated, fantasies.
It's a movie about a young 14 year old girl (played by an 21 year old by the way) who has obviously started to hit puberty and is about to discover her sexuality. She starts experimenting a bit and we get to see all of her fantasies, that are being put very straight-forward to the screen. It means that the movie features plenty of full frontal female and male nudity but also some really disgusting scenes, as the little girl is really having some dirty thoughts and fantasies. Pissing, puking, worms...should I say more? But then again it's not supposed to be a movie obviously that is supposed to turn you on. It's merely a look into the thoughts and fantasies of a girl who is about to discover her sexual identity for the first time. I really don't think this movie could had been made by a male director. It takes a woman to be able to get into a young girls mind and translate and brings to the screen all of the thoughts and feelings she might be having at that certain period in her life. I admire the movie for what it does and attempts to do but as a male, it just wasn't all that appealing or throughout interesting to me.
As you wouldn't had guessed it already, this movie is being an art-house type of movie. Nothing too heavy, although some of the sequences might still be shocking to some people, since it has some explicit nudity and some gross out moments in it. But it's at least not a movie that is full of itself and tries too desperately to be an arty and creative one, by putting in lots of symbolism and sequences that run overlong.
Still you feel that the movie could had done way more with its subject. It could at least had made it a bit more interesting to watch. At times now I was really thinking 'why am I even watching this'. Not that it's boring though, the movie was also too short for that but it's also really a movie I could easily had done without.
If you are female you might still get something out of this movie and recognize yourself in some parts of the movie or its main character, though I still somewhat doubt this. Else females are way more dirty than males if this is the case.
6/10
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It's a movie about a young 14 year old girl (played by an 21 year old by the way) who has obviously started to hit puberty and is about to discover her sexuality. She starts experimenting a bit and we get to see all of her fantasies, that are being put very straight-forward to the screen. It means that the movie features plenty of full frontal female and male nudity but also some really disgusting scenes, as the little girl is really having some dirty thoughts and fantasies. Pissing, puking, worms...should I say more? But then again it's not supposed to be a movie obviously that is supposed to turn you on. It's merely a look into the thoughts and fantasies of a girl who is about to discover her sexual identity for the first time. I really don't think this movie could had been made by a male director. It takes a woman to be able to get into a young girls mind and translate and brings to the screen all of the thoughts and feelings she might be having at that certain period in her life. I admire the movie for what it does and attempts to do but as a male, it just wasn't all that appealing or throughout interesting to me.
As you wouldn't had guessed it already, this movie is being an art-house type of movie. Nothing too heavy, although some of the sequences might still be shocking to some people, since it has some explicit nudity and some gross out moments in it. But it's at least not a movie that is full of itself and tries too desperately to be an arty and creative one, by putting in lots of symbolism and sequences that run overlong.
Still you feel that the movie could had done way more with its subject. It could at least had made it a bit more interesting to watch. At times now I was really thinking 'why am I even watching this'. Not that it's boring though, the movie was also too short for that but it's also really a movie I could easily had done without.
If you are female you might still get something out of this movie and recognize yourself in some parts of the movie or its main character, though I still somewhat doubt this. Else females are way more dirty than males if this is the case.
6/10
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- Boba_Fett1138
- May 28, 2010
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A Real Dull Film...
Not (as most of Breillat) for the faint-hearted...
- mireillebelleau
- Jul 25, 2003
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Tiresome Tales of Adolescent Thoughts
A visceral pre-figurative work.
The first film from Catherine Breillat, the director of "Romance" ('99), that had, upon it's completion in 1975, caused a ratings scandal in France and, beyond being censored, was banned outright. Tellingly, this year (2000) it finally arrived, with little fanfare, on a screen in Paris as, literally across the street at the MK2 Odeon, another controversial film "Baise-Moi" (2000) was causing riots that led to the film being pulled from cinemas.
"Une Vraie Jeune Fille" showcases all of the obsessions that mark Breillat's work through to "Romance" and in a way it is almost more interesting to see the film in retrospect, in light of the films that she made after it, as the lietmotifs present in all were not only prefigured in the first film, but this first film also comments on them.
A girl returns to her parents house from boarding school for the summer. The situation is stifiling and her father's incestuous desires are more than just suggested, though the girl does little to disuade them. She becomes obsessed with a blue collar employee of her father's and his indifference toward her only increases his presence in her numerous sexual fantasies.
The film is visceral and, while the camera is often highly subjective, it maintains, via a cool facade deliberately imitating that of 70's soft porn, that lends it a level of objectivity often entirely absent in American cinema (This film will, incidentally, never reach American screens).
In the same way that "Romance" operates, this film, while exploring detailed fantasies, uses its objectivity to resist any psychoanalyzation of its protagonist. It presents only the events, real events merge with fantasy to lend the pornographic journey/discovery a somewhat hallucinatory aspect
Breillat has found a niche as a filmmaker her films are cool to the touch without being deconstructive, placing her somwhere between Godard and pornography and as a result her films lack a certain element of humanity that prevent them from transcending this niche.
"Une Vraie Jeune Fille" showcases all of the obsessions that mark Breillat's work through to "Romance" and in a way it is almost more interesting to see the film in retrospect, in light of the films that she made after it, as the lietmotifs present in all were not only prefigured in the first film, but this first film also comments on them.
A girl returns to her parents house from boarding school for the summer. The situation is stifiling and her father's incestuous desires are more than just suggested, though the girl does little to disuade them. She becomes obsessed with a blue collar employee of her father's and his indifference toward her only increases his presence in her numerous sexual fantasies.
The film is visceral and, while the camera is often highly subjective, it maintains, via a cool facade deliberately imitating that of 70's soft porn, that lends it a level of objectivity often entirely absent in American cinema (This film will, incidentally, never reach American screens).
In the same way that "Romance" operates, this film, while exploring detailed fantasies, uses its objectivity to resist any psychoanalyzation of its protagonist. It presents only the events, real events merge with fantasy to lend the pornographic journey/discovery a somewhat hallucinatory aspect
Breillat has found a niche as a filmmaker her films are cool to the touch without being deconstructive, placing her somwhere between Godard and pornography and as a result her films lack a certain element of humanity that prevent them from transcending this niche.
french piecer
This was the slowest, most horrible foreign film I've seen in awhile. The cinematography was weaker than children's Tylenol. I'm still not sure whether there was an actual plot or not. I realize the 'real young girl' was going through some pubescent issues or confusion, but seriously... if you're going to make a bad film and call it 'psychosexual', you could at least put some good sex scenes in it. Granted, the girl had a great body, but so do half the soft core actresses in Hollywood. If you want a good raunchy sex movie from the 70's, look elsewhere, b/c it's not here. I want those 93 minutes of my life back.
Excellent Breillat
- Tristan!-2
- Jul 22, 2006
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The film Catherine Breillat has been revisiting ever since she first made it
Catherine Breillat's first film, is in retrospect, a trip into what will be familiar territory (it reminded me of Fat Girl in mood look and plot). Here a well developed 14 year old comes home and begins to explore herself and her moods. She keeps a diary about her feelings and explorations. Its a dark and disturbing film that doesn't seem to be about anything other than showing that little girls are not just sweet and light; and disturbing the audience in such away that its not really disturbing because you know she's going for effect and little more (I understand its to get us to think, but must it always be about the same thing?). Its not bad as such but having seen Breillat's other work I had the feeling I had been here before (or is that would go here again?), so her revelations are less than spectacular. And while I should say that I am not a fan of her work I still don't didn't see the point.
- dbborroughs
- May 4, 2008
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Who can figure girls out!
(1975) A Real Young Girl/ Une Vraie Jeune Fille
(In French with English subtitles)
ADULT DRAMA/ AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
A no- plot adaption from her own novel of the same name, directed by controversial director Catherine Breillat, starring Charlotte Alexandra as Alice Bonnard who's just coming home to visit her parents for the week from her studies who's just turned the age of 17. She then spends the rest of the movie dwelling on finding her sexual identity or finding puberty, since she loves touching her private parts with inanimate objects such as spoons and bicycle seats. And loves teasing model-like guys who work for her extramarital dad. What more is there to say except that the director's female characters teases the men in the movie as much as the director loves to tease it's viewers. Although, I couldn't understand what to make of it, I had to semantically come to the conclusion that because it's adapted from Catherine Breillat own personal novel, that it can also be defined as an autobiography as well, since the actress is performing abnormal acts average people would not even try such as urinating without the seat down, or on the ground so that the guy she likes can see it too- this is not normal stuff, but can be expressed through into her films. Whereas, she refuses any advances made from any of the young men too. Making the assumption that the director Catherine Breillat is expressing her peculiar and rather odd acts through the actresses who star in her movies as much of her controversial films have no plot nor do they tell us anything we don't already know, for it may be another side we don't quite know about Catherine Breillat herself.
A no- plot adaption from her own novel of the same name, directed by controversial director Catherine Breillat, starring Charlotte Alexandra as Alice Bonnard who's just coming home to visit her parents for the week from her studies who's just turned the age of 17. She then spends the rest of the movie dwelling on finding her sexual identity or finding puberty, since she loves touching her private parts with inanimate objects such as spoons and bicycle seats. And loves teasing model-like guys who work for her extramarital dad. What more is there to say except that the director's female characters teases the men in the movie as much as the director loves to tease it's viewers. Although, I couldn't understand what to make of it, I had to semantically come to the conclusion that because it's adapted from Catherine Breillat own personal novel, that it can also be defined as an autobiography as well, since the actress is performing abnormal acts average people would not even try such as urinating without the seat down, or on the ground so that the guy she likes can see it too- this is not normal stuff, but can be expressed through into her films. Whereas, she refuses any advances made from any of the young men too. Making the assumption that the director Catherine Breillat is expressing her peculiar and rather odd acts through the actresses who star in her movies as much of her controversial films have no plot nor do they tell us anything we don't already know, for it may be another side we don't quite know about Catherine Breillat herself.
- jordondave-28085
- May 8, 2023
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Alireza.Akhlaghi.Official
After watching this film, you only find that France of the seventies has no level and desire but unrestrained, and the direction of it follows a kind of action from pure ignorance along with the struggle for having sex without purpose.
Addressing this issue in this way justifies a story in the making of this film. Trying to get the box.
It's not our question whether this film has been successful at the box office.
Undisturbed understanding of this kind is not far from conceivable.
It can be conceptually free from our reception, but the film is not merely a geography of its own and can be seen in the world and, of course, judgment.
The desire of a girl who returned to her family during the summer vacation and was not interested in this issue, justifiably justifies her desire to inquire about her own world, which, in order to understand the new experiences, saves her understanding of the experience of her inner rebellion in various forms.
Her illusion and fantasy can be understood, in part, by the perceiving personality of each member of his family, but his appearance in this way reflects the ugliness of the scriptwriter's thinking, regardless of his psychological discovery.
The film actually does not have the story, and only makes the audience fantasy instead of thinking. Do not watch the movie.
- alireza-akhlaghi84
- Nov 23, 2018
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One has to trust the auteur, this is extremely valid art
Don't toy with me like you do your...
If the sexual awakening of a teenage girl wasn't already a heavily-subversive, abstract concept, then Catherine Breillat's A Real Young Girl can be viewed as one of the damnedest depictions of one of the most damning subjects in cinema history. Catherine Breillat's, who later became renowned her focus on the sexuality of a teenage girl, first film can be viewed as an unabashed masterpiece or a choppy piece of transgressive cinema depending on how you view it. The film possesses some very strong sequences, features a lead actress who is given so much to do and yet so little, and its approach is only odder and more convoluted the more you watch it.
There's a certain mysticism to A Real Young Girl, thanks to the way it approaches its subject which has been identified by some online reviewers as "surrealism." If I employ the term "surrealism," I stutter when trying to define what I mean. Surrealist cinema is one of the many undefined terms in cinema, right up there with mise-en-scene, and the only thing I can manage to conjure up for my interpretation is the use of shocking or ambiguous imagery mixed with a dreamlike effect. According to my own personal definition, A Real Young Girl fits right in under surrealist cinema, concerning Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra), a fourteen-year-old girl who returns home from a boarding school in France on summer break. She discovers her father has hired a young handyman named Jim (Hiram Keller), who Alice immediately takes a liking to. She begins having graphic sexual fantasies involving Jim, one of which has power to shock you raw and should not be spoiled here. Alice continues with these elaborate yet simultaneously choppy dream sequences, where she seems to hunger for the most explicit sex. Certain flashbacks even involve her masturbating in her younger years, with one scene in particular showing her utilizing a spoon for aid in masturbation.
Breillat is absolutely fearless here, constructing several fantasies in order to achieve a combination of shock and insight into the psyche of a teenage girl. It is this precise approach that has kept her a reputable French director even in modern times. Charlotte Alexandra only elevates this material, often utilizing blanks stares and fits of pleasure for added effect. Her character, however, is pretty vapid, not connecting with many other individuals and only living in this world of dizzying flashbacks and uncertain explicitness. One wonders how young Alice behaves at school and if these sexual tendencies continue in the crowded dormitories back there.
The biggest issue with A Real Young Girl is its greatest strength, which is its abstract depiction of the life of this young girl. The film is a handful, often incoherent, sometimes maddening, and occasionally boring as its artfully tries to obscure what exactly is happening on screen and sometimes leaving Alice behind in a film that directly focuses on her. Breillat has always been a director that leaves a great deal of contemplation on the viewer. Consider her later film Fat Girl and how its graphic, tragic ending could be interpreted in several different ways.
Now imagine that as the entire basis for A Real Young Girl; a film where every scene can be interpreted a handful of different ways. There's nothing wrong with ambiguity in a film, but when a film is predicated so much so off of the ability to deceive and play with the viewer, then its core idea and takeaway points become a muddle. The only thing I can think of is that this film is a showcase for the sexual awakening of a teenage girl in in explicit and heavily graphic form, but Breillat didn't go through all this trouble to make a simple showcase. There needs to be something more and the answer can only be found with either a second or third viewing or the exploration of several different analyses.
Starring: Charlotte Alexandria. Directed by: Catherine Breillat.
There's a certain mysticism to A Real Young Girl, thanks to the way it approaches its subject which has been identified by some online reviewers as "surrealism." If I employ the term "surrealism," I stutter when trying to define what I mean. Surrealist cinema is one of the many undefined terms in cinema, right up there with mise-en-scene, and the only thing I can manage to conjure up for my interpretation is the use of shocking or ambiguous imagery mixed with a dreamlike effect. According to my own personal definition, A Real Young Girl fits right in under surrealist cinema, concerning Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra), a fourteen-year-old girl who returns home from a boarding school in France on summer break. She discovers her father has hired a young handyman named Jim (Hiram Keller), who Alice immediately takes a liking to. She begins having graphic sexual fantasies involving Jim, one of which has power to shock you raw and should not be spoiled here. Alice continues with these elaborate yet simultaneously choppy dream sequences, where she seems to hunger for the most explicit sex. Certain flashbacks even involve her masturbating in her younger years, with one scene in particular showing her utilizing a spoon for aid in masturbation.
Breillat is absolutely fearless here, constructing several fantasies in order to achieve a combination of shock and insight into the psyche of a teenage girl. It is this precise approach that has kept her a reputable French director even in modern times. Charlotte Alexandra only elevates this material, often utilizing blanks stares and fits of pleasure for added effect. Her character, however, is pretty vapid, not connecting with many other individuals and only living in this world of dizzying flashbacks and uncertain explicitness. One wonders how young Alice behaves at school and if these sexual tendencies continue in the crowded dormitories back there.
The biggest issue with A Real Young Girl is its greatest strength, which is its abstract depiction of the life of this young girl. The film is a handful, often incoherent, sometimes maddening, and occasionally boring as its artfully tries to obscure what exactly is happening on screen and sometimes leaving Alice behind in a film that directly focuses on her. Breillat has always been a director that leaves a great deal of contemplation on the viewer. Consider her later film Fat Girl and how its graphic, tragic ending could be interpreted in several different ways.
Now imagine that as the entire basis for A Real Young Girl; a film where every scene can be interpreted a handful of different ways. There's nothing wrong with ambiguity in a film, but when a film is predicated so much so off of the ability to deceive and play with the viewer, then its core idea and takeaway points become a muddle. The only thing I can think of is that this film is a showcase for the sexual awakening of a teenage girl in in explicit and heavily graphic form, but Breillat didn't go through all this trouble to make a simple showcase. There needs to be something more and the answer can only be found with either a second or third viewing or the exploration of several different analyses.
Starring: Charlotte Alexandria. Directed by: Catherine Breillat.
- StevePulaski
- Jan 7, 2014
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Hard to understand....
A Film like 'A Real Young Girl' is Hard to Understand. You fail to grasp it's genre. Is this Porno or a actual movie, is the question I asked myself? And even after replaying the entire film, I failed to come up with a satisfactory answer to my question.
'A Real Young Girl' tells the story of a 14-year-old girl's sexual awakening. This child, you see, goes very horny. She wants Sex and her character comes out as a girl struggling to get-done with lust.
Catherine Breillat's direction is alright. She uses her central character, to the optimum. Only question, I want to know and repeat is, that. Was her intention to make a porno, or a actual movie? Charlotte Alexandra does a good job as a 14-year old horny little girl. And the rest of the cast also do well.
Final Word - Give me the proper genre of this film, but even then, my verdict for this flick would be strictly average!
'A Real Young Girl' tells the story of a 14-year-old girl's sexual awakening. This child, you see, goes very horny. She wants Sex and her character comes out as a girl struggling to get-done with lust.
Catherine Breillat's direction is alright. She uses her central character, to the optimum. Only question, I want to know and repeat is, that. Was her intention to make a porno, or a actual movie? Charlotte Alexandra does a good job as a 14-year old horny little girl. And the rest of the cast also do well.
Final Word - Give me the proper genre of this film, but even then, my verdict for this flick would be strictly average!
A strange mixture of morbidity and eroticism
Another one of those European "girl coming to age and feeling sexually curious" movies, done as only the Euros can.
Interesting. Not sexy.
Those are the things that happen to me all the time. Just a few days ago, I discovered this movie from a movie list and, after reading all the reviews and comments, I was curious and decided I wanted to see it. Well, as I was browsing the TV guide for something to watch, I found it was playing tonight on some Quebec french specialized channel.
I am just a guy, so I can't tell if that's really how teenage girls learn about their sexuality, but from the perspective of an adult male viewer, it's... well... unattractive.
It's a weird, slow pace movie, way different from what I have ever seen before, and probably different than any other possible movie.
Worth seeing, if you don't mind viewing genitals, both female and male.
Do not watch if you expect action, or if you expect a porno. Or if you dislike 30-year-old movies.
I am just a guy, so I can't tell if that's really how teenage girls learn about their sexuality, but from the perspective of an adult male viewer, it's... well... unattractive.
It's a weird, slow pace movie, way different from what I have ever seen before, and probably different than any other possible movie.
Worth seeing, if you don't mind viewing genitals, both female and male.
Do not watch if you expect action, or if you expect a porno. Or if you dislike 30-year-old movies.
- Tom-Duhamel
- May 25, 2007
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"A surreal voyage into adolescent sexuality"
"A Real Young Girl" is the directing debut of French writer, screenwriter and director Catherine Breillat, known for her controversial erotic films that border with pornography, in which she signs the source novel and the script and directing. The film is extremely slow, but it is necessary for building the desired atmosphere. In the beginning, you will probably be bored, but I think the author does it deliberately, so that we can identify with how the protagonist of the story feels, a teenage girl who returns from the boarding school to a parental home for a summer break. Charlotte Alexandra plays a girl in the age when hormones drive her nuts and she has no idea what to do with herself. We've all been through this stage of growing up, but this movie stretches it to extremes. Teenagers often have strange fantasies, and a healthy dose of perversion is nothing new, but this movie is sick dirty. I have the impression that many scenes have been inserted only to disgust and shock the audience without, in any way, contributing to the story or the artistic value of the film. Or the author simply used this to work out her own morbid perversions that she could not achieve in reality. On the one hand, I was impressed by the performance and appearance of the young Charlotte, as well as the excellent characterization of her character, while on the other hand, the story is quite boring and at times repulsive. A movie like this could have been made only in the seventies.
6/10
6/10
- Bored_Dragon
- Jun 26, 2019
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I hate people. They complicate me.
This is Catherine Breillat's directorial debut. She also wrote the screenplay from her novel published the year before.
One may be initially confused about the fact that it was made in 1976, but not released until over 20 years later. No, it is not a video nasty, but it was banned in France and only when films like Salo or Boise Moi got released, were we able to see this film.
Breillat is not for everybody. The sex in her films is in-your-face. You have to look at them with an open mind. They have an artistic value and should be seen for that.
The film, about a 14-year-old's self discovery stars voluptuous Charlotte Alexandra, who would later appear in Emmanuelle 3. She explores her body with the boredom and recklessness of a teen, and wonders about the studs that she comes into contact with. She fantasizes at times, even about her own father. It was just too frank for the censors at the time.
This is not for the trench-coat crowd, as there is no sex, although her father (Bruno Balp) sure acts as if he would be willing. His smiles and touches are most unfatherly.
The ending was both funny and sad.
One may be initially confused about the fact that it was made in 1976, but not released until over 20 years later. No, it is not a video nasty, but it was banned in France and only when films like Salo or Boise Moi got released, were we able to see this film.
Breillat is not for everybody. The sex in her films is in-your-face. You have to look at them with an open mind. They have an artistic value and should be seen for that.
The film, about a 14-year-old's self discovery stars voluptuous Charlotte Alexandra, who would later appear in Emmanuelle 3. She explores her body with the boredom and recklessness of a teen, and wonders about the studs that she comes into contact with. She fantasizes at times, even about her own father. It was just too frank for the censors at the time.
This is not for the trench-coat crowd, as there is no sex, although her father (Bruno Balp) sure acts as if he would be willing. His smiles and touches are most unfatherly.
The ending was both funny and sad.
- lastliberal
- Apr 14, 2009
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The development of a busty French lass...
This film is rather difficult to review because it doesn't really have a plot to speak of, and it's clear that director Catherine Breillat was more keen on focusing on the art elements and detailing the sexual developments of a young girl than telling a story. This is the first film I've seen from Catherine Breillat, but given what I've read about her; it would seem that she enjoys directing films that focus on sexuality, and that would seem to be the case if this film is anything to go by. A Real Young Girl focuses on Alice Bonnard, a 'well developed' teenager who attends a boarding school and is spending the summer at her parents' house. She enjoys experimenting, and has a particular fascination with fluids, as she experiments with all sorts including urine and ear wax, as well as egg yolk and tanning cream. She becomes fixated on a man employed by her father, as well as a couple of other local men and her father, and the film basically follows her summer as things happen to her parents and she develops sexually.
Unlike most exploitation films, this one takes place from the woman's point of view, although the idea that all men are sex-obsessed perverts certainly shines through, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Catherine Breillat is a devout feminist, as there isn't one single decent male character in the whole film. The film rests a lot on its star Charlotte Alexandra, and she doesn't disappoint. Her performance is thoroughly realistic, and she also looks rather tasty, which is sure to delight the male viewers. I have to admit that I was expecting to be shocked going into the film, and while A Real Young Girl is liable to offend less well versed viewers; it would seem I've seen too much of this stuff as nothing in the film seemed too over the top to me. Catherine Breillat clearly isn't afraid to shock the viewers, however, as the film features plenty of nudity and other perverse scenes. The film features no suspense and the plot really just plods along, but it's well paced and while you know that the ending isn't going to provide much intrigue, it doesn't matter as anyone looking for a sexually charged film is likely to be satisfied.
Unlike most exploitation films, this one takes place from the woman's point of view, although the idea that all men are sex-obsessed perverts certainly shines through, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Catherine Breillat is a devout feminist, as there isn't one single decent male character in the whole film. The film rests a lot on its star Charlotte Alexandra, and she doesn't disappoint. Her performance is thoroughly realistic, and she also looks rather tasty, which is sure to delight the male viewers. I have to admit that I was expecting to be shocked going into the film, and while A Real Young Girl is liable to offend less well versed viewers; it would seem I've seen too much of this stuff as nothing in the film seemed too over the top to me. Catherine Breillat clearly isn't afraid to shock the viewers, however, as the film features plenty of nudity and other perverse scenes. The film features no suspense and the plot really just plods along, but it's well paced and while you know that the ending isn't going to provide much intrigue, it doesn't matter as anyone looking for a sexually charged film is likely to be satisfied.
Another Sexual Alice
Crazy; worth seeing
The film is very unusual at times and its sheer sexuality often gets too heavy. However it is certainly worth seeing, simply for its madness. And for the smoking hot Charlotte Alexandra. She alone is worth the price of admission. Shocking that the film's release was held up until 2000 (25 years later!) due to budgetary problems.
- poorspider
- Jul 26, 2002
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Alice, sweet Alice
A Real Young Girl
A Real Young Girl (1976)
*** (out of 4)
Fourteen year old Alice (Charlotte Alexandra) is on summer vacation when she starts to experiment with her sexuality. Most of this has her doing things to herself but soon she starts to lust after an older guy. This was made in 1975 but the producer's were so shocked that they kept it on the shelf until 2001, after director Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl became such a hit. I enjoyed Fat Girl a lot more but this film here was pretty good, although the strong sexual content and nudity will certainly make most shy away from it. The way the director explores women's sexuality is brave to say the least.
*** (out of 4)
Fourteen year old Alice (Charlotte Alexandra) is on summer vacation when she starts to experiment with her sexuality. Most of this has her doing things to herself but soon she starts to lust after an older guy. This was made in 1975 but the producer's were so shocked that they kept it on the shelf until 2001, after director Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl became such a hit. I enjoyed Fat Girl a lot more but this film here was pretty good, although the strong sexual content and nudity will certainly make most shy away from it. The way the director explores women's sexuality is brave to say the least.
- Michael_Elliott
- Mar 10, 2008
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Sexual phantasies and real life
Watched the film with Charlotte Alexandra in the main role "The Real Young Girl" (1976), liked her even more, than in "Immoral stories" (1974) - here she displays very sensual, wholehearted, heartfelt and indigenous heroine! If someone is interested, watch it and rate this film: its rating, of course, is low, but fans of films about the complex problems of maturation and puberty will have something to see and think about. I really liked the romantic musical theme "Une vraje jeune fille", written by the composer Mort Shuman. It's have a soul and very melodic!
Score 9 out of 10.
Score 9 out of 10.
- kmhf-25079
- Nov 4, 2018
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