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The Girl (2001)

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Reviews Counted:33

Fresh:4

Rotten:29

Average Rating:3.3/10

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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Lesson learned: You can read theoreticians. You can [expletive] theoreticians. Just don't adapt their work into movies.

Full Review Source: PopcornQ | comment Comment
04/02/01
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

This may be a slow film, but there are worse settings for aimlessness.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
08/31/01
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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Numbingly dull and repetitive.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/14/01
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
08/23/01
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A curiosity, little more.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
03/10/02
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Unlike Bound, which was sexy enough to satisfy anybody regardless of sexual orientation, this one is strictly for lesbians.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
05/25/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

The film has almost no erotic or poetic temperature.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
07/13/01
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

The only thing hot about this pic were the tender sex scenes...

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/29/03
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Pretentious dialogue is matched by equally uninvolving performances in this debut feature by Sande Zeig.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/03/08
Derek Elley
Derek Elley
Variety

Has the dreary one-track banality of a feature-length version of an episode of Red Shoe Diaries.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
04/20/01
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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No review available.

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10/30/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

A piss-poor attempt at soft core lesbian porn.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
04/19/01
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/17/01
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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07/16/01
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

This is noir-by-the-numbers. See it if you're interested in a nicely-shot film that doesn't quite satisfy.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

The Girl was released after two years in the can. Maybe it should have stayed there.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
09/14/01
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

Christopher Walken could walk in from the Saturday Night Live 'Continental' skit and feel right at home.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
04/18/01
Jessica Winter
Jessica Winter
Village Voice

Dreary, leaden lesbian film-noir.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
06/25/01
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Finally too languid and silly for its own good, with dialogue that could make you wince.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
07/02/01
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Instead of providing alluring personalities, Zeig and Wittig create vague archetypes to make their glib ideological points.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/17/01
Kevin Courrier
Kevin Courrier
Globe and Mail
 
 
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