Synopsis
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
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Cast
- Karidja TouréMarieme / Vic
- Assa SyllaLady
- Lindsay KaramohAdiatou
- Mariétou TouréFily
- Idrissa DiabatéIsmaël
- Cyril MendyDjibril
- Tia DiagneBambi
- Rabah Nait OufellaKader
- Damien ChapelleCédric
- Simina SoumaréBébé
Recommendations
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The Hollywood Reporter
Where many filmmakers would have underlined the bleaker, harsher aspects, Girlhood presents the characters' grim reality without surrendering its lightness of touch, its compassion or its hope. - 100
Variety
As in “Water Lilies” and “Tomboy” before this, Sciamma pushes past superficial anthropological study to deliver a vital, nonjudgmental character study. - 100
CineVue
Girlhood's non-patronising and credible representation of class, race and gender is a rare and perceptive illustration of the intricacies of social inequality. - 100
Village Voice
Raw and insistent, bold and brawling, Girlhood throbs with the global now, illustrating the ways an indifferent society boxes in the people who grow up in project-style boxes. - 91
IndieWire
The tense, involving result confirms Sciamma's mastery over the coming-of-age drama, a genre too often reduced to its simplest ingredients. - 91
The Playlist
Girlhood is a fascinatingly layered, textured film that manages to be both a lament for sweetness lost and a celebration of wisdom and identity gained, often at the very same moment. - 83
The A.V. Club
"Boyhood" has the natural endpoint of its lead growing into a young adult, while Girlhood stretches out in front of Marieme, an uncertain path into a haze. - 75
New York Post
Girlhood veers between being a celebration of sisterhood (albeit an occasionally violent sort) and a chronicle of the cycle of poverty.
