(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.