Girlhood A powerful view on one girl's search for her place in life

Film classification: 15
Duration: 113 mins
Released: 2015
Director: Céline Sciamma
Country of origin: France
Classification: 15

Marieme joins an all-girl gang in the projects of Paris and is slowly turned out of her shell by her three sassy neighbours. As she falls further under their bravado and volatile energy, she begins making brave and foolish choices.

Writing in Variety, Peter Debruge wrote "As in “Water Lilies” and “Tomboy” before this, Sciamma pushes past superficial anthropological study to deliver a vital, nonjudgmental character study, this time following 16-year-old Marieme as she seeks her path amid a “girl gang” (a better translation of the French title, “Bande de filles”."

The Guardian described the film as "a work of cinematic art."


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