Synopsis
When Camille accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time, before seventeen girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos.
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Cast
- Louise GrinbergCamille
- Juliette DarcheJulia
- Roxane DuranFlorence
- Esther GarrelFlavie
- Yara PilartzClémentine
- Solène RigotMathilde
- Noémie LvovskySchool Nurse
- Florence ThomassinCamille's Mother
- Carlo BrandtPrincipal
- Frédéric NoailleFlorian
Recommendations
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The New York Times
Wavering between light comedy and drama with wonderfully natural performances, 17 Girls doesn't judge anyone's behavior. - 75
NPR
17 Girls has a powerful and loving sense of place. - 67
The A.V. Club
The insights into girlhood in the opening are coming from the viewpoint of adults, while in a story this strange-but-true, it'd be more helpful to see these kids as they see themselves. - 60
Variety
Impressively, the rookie scribe-helmers' sense of equilibrium is unerring and also surprisingly subtle. - 60
Time Out
Underwater shots of spherical midsections floating past the camera prove that they understand the beauty of bodies in motion, even if their storytelling feels a little stillborn. - 60
Arizona Republic
17 Girls doesn't try to explain its many mysteries. That would have made for a better film, but this one does a nice job showing its effects. - 58
The Playlist
17 Girls is mostly fueled by grrl-power, from it's nineties-era femme-centric alt-rock, to it's marginalization of boys as sperm-deposit devices, unfair but a natural corrective to years of women onscreen as purely sexual objects. - 50
Slant Magazine
At which point does a superficially "nonjudgmental" approach simply seem coy rather than sincerely evenhanded?
