Synopsis
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary.
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Cast
- Charlotte AlexandraAlice Bonnard
- Hiram KellerPierre-Evariste Renard / 'Jim' / 'Earthworm Jim'
- Rita MaidenMrs. Bonnard
- Bruno BalpMr. Bonnard
- Georges GuéretMartial
- Shirley StolerGrocer in Aupom
- Thierry RolandTV Commentator (voice) (archive footage)
- Marie-Hélène BreillatVoice of Alice Bonnard (voice) (uncredited)
- Alexandra GouveiaMartine (uncredited)
- Carmelo PetixL'Exhibitionniste (uncredited)
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Chicago Reader
The theories about sexuality and trauma artfully advanced in this previously unreleased 1975 debut of director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) are more nuanced and intuitive than those of most schools of psychology. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Breillat has long been fascinated with the idea that women are not allowed to go through puberty in private but instead seem to be on display for all to watch, a situation that has no parallel with boys. A Real Young Girl seems acutely aware of this paradox. - 70
The New York Times
Crude, unpolished, yet curiously dreamy. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Neither cheerfully naughty nor suffused with gauzy prurience, it evokes a time of turbulent (and often ugly) emotions with disquieting intensity. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
The delayed release of this 1975 drama provides an interesting view of her (Breillat) early development as a world-class filmmaker. - 40
Village Voice
A philosophical gross-out comedy rudely presented from the perspective of a sullen, sexually curious 14-year-old. - 38
New York Post
A test of endurance, and not just because you need a rather stronger word than "explicit" to describe this long-unreleased, self-consciously provocative film.
