Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 29
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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.
Apr 20, 2001 Limited
Feb 19, 2002
Artistic License Films
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.
Forces you to endure endless streams of badly written paragraphs of pseudo-poetic existentialism to get to the sex parts.
Its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
Celebrates the emotional and physical liberation that comes with lovemaking, while also recognizing that such exhilaration sometimes carries a price.
Numbingly dull and repetitive.
This may be a slow film, but there are worse settings for aimlessness.
The only thing hot about this pic were the tender sex scenes...
The Girl resembles the unedited work of an unpromising student filmmaker whose pretension exponentially outweighs her ability.
This is noir-by-the-numbers. See it if you're interested in a nicely-shot film that doesn't quite satisfy.
A curiosity, little more.
The Girl was released after two years in the can. Maybe it should have stayed there.
Offers a certain heady atmosphere and rhythm as it takes its inevitable path.
Directed by Sande Zeig, The Girl is trying to be stylish and cool, but she gets more laughs and eye-rolls than anything else.
The film has almost no erotic or poetic temperature.
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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