36 Fillette
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In Theaters : 06 January, 1989
DVD Release : 27 July, 1999 |
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36 Fillette Customer Reviews
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Breillat is a film genius.
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Catherine Breillat (1948) is a brilliant French filmmaker, director and novelist. Her films are intended to take us places we've never been before, and usually outside our comfort zones with their depictions of hard sexual truths. As a result, Breillat no stranger to controversy. Although 36 Fillette (1988) is not among my favorite Breillat films (which include [[ASIN:B0002V7O10 Fat Girl - Criterion Collection]], [[ASIN:B00003JRAV Romance]], and [[ASIN:B0001JXPK2 Brief Crossing (Breve Traversee)]]) it is nevertheless a worthwhile film (despite the poor film-to-dvd transfer quality).
As a precursor to her later work, Breillat's film confronts issues of sex and violence and contains provocative themes common to all of her later work. 36 Fillette tells the story of Lili (Delphine Zentout), a tempestuous 14-year-old French girl who flirts with one man after the next while vacationing with her family near Biarritz. She has decided it is "miserable" to be a virgin, and believes she is ready now lose her virginity at any risk. Despite her adolescent pout, Lili is depicted as a child in a woman's body, which (as the film's title also suggests) seems to be Breillat's point here: that in matters of sexuality, we are naive children living in adult-sized bodies. Zentout and Jean-Pierre Leaud ([[ASIN:B00008H2GR Francois Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run) - Criterion Collection]]) bring excellent performances to the film. It would be difficult to find Breillat's intellectualized sexual dialogue happening anywhere else in cinema, and like all of her films, this is a film people should be debating afterwards in cafes, bars, and their bedrooms.
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