A Real Young Lady (1976)
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Genres: Drama
Director: Catherine Breillat
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Release Date: 28 April 1999 (France)
Country: France
Clips courtsey of: Thanks to original artist.
Synopsis
August, 1963; Alice, 14, an only child, and physically well developed, is home for vacation. She's moody, silent, keeps a diary, and explores tactile sensations with broken eggs, candle wax, ear wax, vomit, urine, blood, and, perhaps, if the summer goes in one very possible direction, semen. Without her underpants, she walks about, rides her bike, and sits on the shore as the tide comes in. She drifts to her father's sawmill and makes eyes at Jim, a 20-something hand with a lean body and a model's face. What will Jim do, and does Alice want to do more than stare and fantasize? Meanwhile, pop music fills the air and the TV screen, and Alice's parents have their own drama.
Review
The auteur took a risk on this one and got screwed for it. But to
invalidate it as art, especially in the light of compelling but
questionable
films such as "Baise Moi," is wrong.
This film is beautiful, well made, very artistic, has great thematic depth
and makes a statement. What more are we looking for when we define
something as art?
The first clue should be in the title: "A Real Young Girl.' Our culture
(male dominant still,) is fascinated with sexualizing what are in our
cultural context, inappropriately young females, that is, pubescent,
underaged, or more gracefully put "blossoming." This is a complex issue
not
for discussion here, but the point is, artistic treatments of this subject
have been predominantly male. So a "Real Young Girl" may be a statement
indicating that the director is going to show you early adolescent female
sexuality as it truly is, from someone who has experienced it first hand,
and not as it is eroticized by male artists.
I think a big point of this film is that it is not pleasant and not easy,
not fun or romantic, but painful, confusing, and filled with difficult
feelings and disgust.
While the film is beautiful and leaves one with a not unpleasant feeling
(it's a good film, the ending is abrupt and funny, but no more so than
other
great avant-garde or new-wave filmmakers.)
The eroticism can in no way be seen as pornography, though. Despite the
explicitness of its photography (of the vagina especially,) there is no
actual sex, and these explicit scenes are mixed with other aspects that
open
them to complex interpretation.
For instance, the main character undresses and experiments by putting red
ink on her erogenous zones, but during the whole scene, a fly is very
persistently buzzing around the room. I'm not going to go into detail
interpreting, but you get my point.
Another very explicit scene, the character in her fantasy, bound with
barbed-wire, spread eagled naked on the ground. We see very explicit
close-up of her vagina, but this is concurrent with her fantasy lover
dangling a live worm over it, and eventually pulling the worm apart and
dropping the still squirming bits on her pubis.
Or a scene where walking on the beach to another fantasy, she drops her
panties on the decaying corpse of a dog.
Again, interpret for yourself, but you'll see not only a depth of symbol,
but a unity of theme in the natural world and decay as related to this
young
girl's perception of her vagina: something akin to stinky, swampy pit- far
from the ripe, juicy peach of male imagination.
It gives what seems to my male mind, a convincing portrayal of early
adolescent female sexuality from the perspective of a woman.
The director clearly loves the female form but the film is no more
explicit,
and certainly less shocking, than say Pasolini's "Salo." (In fact, if Pier
had been attracted to women, I suspect he would have given us similarly
graphic views instead of tending to orient on penises of extraordinary
size.) It's hard to find this film exploitative in comparison to such
celebrated films as "Last Tango in Paris."
I could go on and on but the point is, this is not a gray area somewhere
near pornography, but a valid, necessary, and probably important (though
only history will tell,) work.
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