★★★★☆ Céline Sciamma proves with new film Girlhood (2014) that she's adept at crafting universally accessible coming-of-age stories. In this newest go-round, Sciamma trains her lens on the housing projects of an outlying Parisian neighbourhood. Here, the story revolves with notions of young women crafting their identities both publicly and privately. Despite the world of the film, Sciamma never falls into cultural clichés or stereotyping. She provides new avenues to experience depictions of turbulent teenage years. What results is a thoroughly absorbing drama that, much like the teenage experience, is felt very intensely in its highs as well as its lows.
Marieme (Karidja Touré) is a 16-year-old tomboy facing stalled academic prospects and a less-than-comforting home life. She crushes on her brother's good friend Ismaël (Idrissa Diabaté) and plays American football with other girls her age. But there is the sense of unfulfillment, that Marieme has not quite found her niche. Cue...
Marieme (Karidja Touré) is a 16-year-old tomboy facing stalled academic prospects and a less-than-comforting home life. She crushes on her brother's good friend Ismaël (Idrissa Diabaté) and plays American football with other girls her age. But there is the sense of unfulfillment, that Marieme has not quite found her niche. Cue...
- 9/7/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It takes only a look to unsettle, even undo, a teenage girl. A look can be so many things at once: an ogling, a scrutiny, a provocation, a form of surveillance and control. In “Girlhood,” the roving eyes of older boys transform a throng of rowdy female athletes into a flock of disconcertingly meek mademoiselles, their heads sunk as low as they’ll go without dislocating any vertebrae. Those same girls can’t bear the aggressive stares of other girls, either. The hostile female gaze transfigures them into raving lunatics, suddenly seized by the urgent need to slam their knuckles into an enemy’s sneering,...
- 1/29/2015
- by Inkoo Kang
- The Wrap
Girlhood (Bande de fille) Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Céline Sciamma Screenwriter: Céline Sciamma Cast: Karidja Touré, Asssa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré, Idrissa Diabaté Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/15/14 Opens: February 6, 2015 There’s enough energy on display from these French teenage girls to power an Airbus 330, or at least put some speed on the train that carries the young people from their working-class suburb to Paris. “Girlhood” may or may not be a comment on French politics, specifically the charge that Western Europe has not done enough to assimilate those with Arab or Muslim backgrounds, hence [ Read More ]
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- 1/28/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Girlhood
Written and directed by Céline Sciamma
France, 2014
When Boyhood broke at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, almost everyone agreed that Richard Linklater had created a powerful statement about the nature of growing up. Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood probably won’t generate that type of hype, but it’s no less powerful and probably more accomplished on a dramatic level. Unlike Boyhood, there are no security blankets in this world; some of the girls will make it and others will not. The only thing you can do is know yourself and fight like hell to protect that vision. Girlhood resonates with a quiet power and wisdom that demands to be heard.
Marieme (Karidja Touré) is a young French girl locked into a life she has no interest in living. The ghetto where she lives is the kind of place that follows a strict script; play your role or pay the price.
Written and directed by Céline Sciamma
France, 2014
When Boyhood broke at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, almost everyone agreed that Richard Linklater had created a powerful statement about the nature of growing up. Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood probably won’t generate that type of hype, but it’s no less powerful and probably more accomplished on a dramatic level. Unlike Boyhood, there are no security blankets in this world; some of the girls will make it and others will not. The only thing you can do is know yourself and fight like hell to protect that vision. Girlhood resonates with a quiet power and wisdom that demands to be heard.
Marieme (Karidja Touré) is a young French girl locked into a life she has no interest in living. The ghetto where she lives is the kind of place that follows a strict script; play your role or pay the price.
- 1/24/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
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