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90Wavering between light comedy and drama with wonderfully natural performances, 17 Girls doesn't judge anyone's behavior.
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67The insights into girlhood in the opening are coming from the viewpoint of adults, while in a story this strange-but-true, it'd be more helpful to see these kids as they see themselves.
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5017 Girls is allegedly inspired by true events, but this diffident, dreamy film is so insubstantial it's hard to believe there's a speck of reality to be found in it.
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6017 Girls doesn't try to explain its many mysteries. That would have made for a better film, but this one does a nice job showing its effects.
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60Underwater shots of spherical midsections floating past the camera prove that they understand the beauty of bodies in motion, even if their storytelling feels a little stillborn.
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7517 Girls has a powerful and loving sense of place.
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5817 Girls is mostly fueled by grrl-power, from it's nineties-era femme-centric alt-rock, to it's marginalization of boys as sperm-deposit devices, unfair but a natural corrective to years of women onscreen as purely sexual objects.
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Sep 21, 201225The setting for "17 Girls" is a French seaside town with a gorgeous beach. Aside from that, what you have here are the ingredi-ents for a Maury Povich show.
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Sep 19, 201250So what does 17 Girls, the debut feature film from sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, add to the "pregnancy pact" canon? A lot of style, but not much substance.
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Sep 18, 201250At which point does a superficially "nonjudgmental" approach simply seem coy rather than sincerely evenhanded?
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Sep 18, 201260Impressively, the rookie scribe-helmers' sense of equilibrium is unerring and also surprisingly subtle.