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  • Starring: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller
  • Summary: Completed in 1975, this first film by Catherine Breillat, the director of "Romance" (1999), revolves around the return of a young girl from boarding school to her parents house for the summer.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    80
    The theories about sexuality and trauma artfully advanced in this previously unreleased 1975 debut of director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) are more nuanced and intuitive than those of most schools of psychology.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Neither cheerfully naughty nor suffused with gauzy prurience, it evokes a time of turbulent (and often ugly) emotions with disquieting intensity.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    A test of endurance, and not just because you need a rather stronger word than "explicit" to describe this long-unreleased, self-consciously provocative film.

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  1. JohnH
    10
    Brilliant iconoclastic investigation into adolescent girl's sexuality. It reaches places other so-called coming-of age films never touch on. Disgraceful that our so-called free society has made us wait 30 years to see what is, for a first film, a luminous triumph.… Expand
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