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The Girl (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 30

Fresh: 4

Rotten:26

Average Rating: 3.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Apr 20, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: A beautiful Painter who frequents a Paris nightclub has an affair with a singer. The Painter, tells the story of her increasing obsession for the singer. She calls her The Girl. When The Painter... A beautiful Painter who frequents a Paris nightclub has an affair with a singer. The Painter, tells the story of her increasing obsession for the singer. She calls her The Girl. When The Painter asks The Girl to spend the night, The Girl takes her to the hotel where she lives. They make love but The Girl lets her know "it's just one night." The Girl and The Painter continue seeing each other after her art classes or late at night. However, they each carry on other relationships: The Girl continues to see men and The Painter continues to see her long-time lover, Bu Savé.

A suspicious-looking Man, who seems to know The Girl, appears in the club. At first, The Painter watches The Man from a distance but later begins to follow him. While The Painter and The Girl engage in an ever more complex game of appearances, The Painter becomes aware that The Man is threatening The Girl.

Suddenly, The Girl disappears. The Painter looks everywhere, but cannot find her in the hotel, at the nightclub or on the streets of the city. Just when The Painter learns The Girl and The Man have left Paris together, The Girl reappears, looking more elegant than ever. The Man has an even more powerful presence.

The Painter goes to The Girl's hotel as she has so many times before. She finds The Man and The Girl together. Crushed, she runs out. She walks the streets. She paints obsessively. But she has to return to The Girl's hotel one more time. This time she discovers The Girl and The Man together again, but it will be for the last time. -- © Artistic License [More]

Starring: Agathe de la Boulaye, Claire Keim, Ronald Guttman, Sandra N'Kake

Starring: Agathe de la Boulaye, Claire Keim, Ronald Guttman, Sandra N'Kake, Cyril Lecomte

Director: Sande Zeig

Director: Sande Zeig
Screenwriter: Monique Wittig
Producer: Dolly Hall
Composer: Richard Robbins
Studio: Artistic License

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Derek Elley
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No review available.

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10/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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The only thing hot about this pic were the tender sex scenes...

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01/29/03
Dennis Schwartz
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01/21/03
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N/R

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

A curiosity, little more.

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03/10/02
Christopher Null
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N/R

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12/15/01
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Forces you to endure endless streams of badly written paragraphs of pseudo-poetic existentialism to get to the sex parts.

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10/12/01
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.

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09/28/01
Loren King
Boston Globe
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Celebrates the emotional and physical liberation that comes with lovemaking, while also recognizing that such exhilaration sometimes carries a price.

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09/20/01
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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The Girl was released after two years in the can. Maybe it should have stayed there.

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09/14/01
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

Numbingly dull and repetitive.

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09/14/01
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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This may be a slow film, but there are worse settings for aimlessness.

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08/31/01
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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08/27/01
Adam Nayman
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One senses more intensity in the female-male power dynamic than in the female-on-female couplings, which are stylishly shot but emotionally detached.

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08/23/01
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The kind of chic, academically minded art movie in which pose replaces performance, archetype pinch-hits for character, and that nothing much of interest happens is presumably deliberate.

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08/17/01
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Offers a certain heady atmosphere and rhythm as it takes its inevitable path.

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08/17/01
Claire Bickley
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Instead of providing alluring personalities, Zeig and Wittig create vague archetypes to make their glib ideological points.

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08/17/01
Kevin Courrier
Globe and Mail
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Directed by Sande Zeig, The Girl is trying to be stylish and cool, but she gets more laughs and eye-rolls than anything else.

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08/10/01
Kim Morgan
Oregonian

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07/16/01
Greg Muskewitz
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