A REAL YOUNG GIRL
dir. Catherine Breillat
FR, 93′
Alice (14) is reluctantly spending her summer holidays at her parents’ house in the country. Attempting to escape boredom, she begins exploring her budding sexuality with a worker at her father’s sawmill. Due to its depiction of raw adolescent female sexuality, the film was banned for 25 years in many countries, including France. Despite, or thanks to, censorship, it gained cult status and is now considered a landmark of feminist cinema.
