Title: Bande de Filles (Girlhood) Director: Céline Sciamma Starring: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Marietou Touré, Idrissa Diabate, Simina Soumare, Cyril Mendy, Djibril Gueye. ‘Girlhood’ is not Richard Linklater’s female equivalent to ‘Boyhood’, but surely is just as powerful in telling a teenage girl’s coming of age story. Writer-director Céline Sciamma, just as she did in her previous movies, ‘Water Lilies’ and ‘Tomboy,’ newly focuses on the struggles and conflicts of young women in today’s pressure-filled society. She decides to pay homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s classic ‘Bande a Part’ (Band of Outsiders), naming her latest work ‘Bande de Filles,’ (Band of Girls) as both stories explore the strivings of [ Read More ]
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- 5/6/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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
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
The most talked-about film of 2014 so far has been Richard Linklater’s opus of adolescence, Boyhood. Unfortunately, the buzz surrounding it could have a negative effect on Girlhood, which despite its titular commonality, is a very different beast of a film. Bold and beautiful, filled with pain and pleasure, and featuring a throbbing soundtrack and propulsive energy, Celine Sciamma’s drama has also been a festival darling.
Unlike Boyhood, which focuses on the coming-of-age of a blonde white boy who is aimless and filled with angst, Girlhood is about a black teenage girl in France, fighting with her own identity and yearning to break free. It is an invigorating slice of life that feels much more specific, urgent and relatable, and it may even be finer than Boyhood.
Sciamma’s drama focuses on Marieme (Karidja Touré), a shy schoolgirl who initially has more boyish interests. (In the film’s rather radical opening scene,...
Unlike Boyhood, which focuses on the coming-of-age of a blonde white boy who is aimless and filled with angst, Girlhood is about a black teenage girl in France, fighting with her own identity and yearning to break free. It is an invigorating slice of life that feels much more specific, urgent and relatable, and it may even be finer than Boyhood.
Sciamma’s drama focuses on Marieme (Karidja Touré), a shy schoolgirl who initially has more boyish interests. (In the film’s rather radical opening scene,...
- 9/24/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
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