A Bijou After Hours Presentation
Warning: Explicit Sexual Content and Scenarios that may disturb some audiences
The debut feature of premier French provocateur Catherine Breillat, A Real Young Girl (Une vraie jeune fille)–an adaptation of her novel, Le soupirail–follows precocious 14-year-old Alice Bonnard as she returns home from boarding school on summer vacation. Burdened by boredom and her own burgeoning sexuality, Alice’s adolescent desires latch onto Jim, a surly young worker employed at her father’s sawmill. Widely censored and banned upon release, A Real Young Girl remains one of cinema’s most audacious and darkly feminine depictions of sexuality put to screen.