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The Girl (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 12

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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A spare, gorgeously realized modern film noir. The story follows the spiraling affair between the film's narrator - a beautiful painter - and a nightclub singer who she calls "The Girl". While their passion for each other is consuming, a relationship from the past threatens to tear them apart.

Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Sande Zeig, Monique Wittig

Feb 19, 2002

Artistic License Films

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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (29) | DVD (2)

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

June 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Forces you to endure endless streams of badly written paragraphs of pseudo-poetic existentialism to get to the sex parts.

October 12, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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Its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.

September 28, 2001 Comment
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.

September 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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Numbingly dull and repetitive.

September 14, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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This may be a slow film, but there are worse settings for aimlessness.

August 31, 2001 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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The only thing hot about this pic were the tender sex scenes...

January 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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The Girl resembles the unedited work of an unpromising student filmmaker whose pretension exponentially outweighs her ability.

January 21, 2003 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

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

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

A curiosity, little more.

March 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

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

September 14, 2001 Comment
San Francisco Examiner

Offers a certain heady atmosphere and rhythm as it takes its inevitable path.

August 17, 2001 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
Jam! Movies

Directed by Sande Zeig, The Girl is trying to be stylish and cool, but she gets more laughs and eye-rolls than anything else.

August 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

The film has almost no erotic or poetic temperature.

July 13, 2001 Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | Comment
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Audience Reviews for The Girl

This is the worst movie ever. Worse than Showgirls. Worse than Glitter. Just mind-numblingly boring and fucking pretentious. STAY AWAY!!

(***): Marginal thumbs up. An interesting curio (film noir meets lesbians).

October 27, 2008
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