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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her disco...

Directed By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 18 m

Girl Model

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her disco...

Directed By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
68
64% Positive
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
68
64% Positive
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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91
Sep 5, 2012
It deserves to be shown to teenagers, not necessarily as a warning, but at least as an eye-opener: This is how it works, kids. And it ain't pretty.
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83
Sep 5, 2012
Girl Model shows that even though some models make big bucks, the global economy remains the same as it ever was: Those with nothing are seduced by the prospect of something, such that they hesitate to complain, lest they end up with less than nothing.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 4, 2012
The filmmakers stay back, observing, for a restrained, intimate and poignant result.
By Jonathan Crocker FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 4, 2012
The radiant sadness of its two subjects - one a soulfully impassive stripling, one a symmetrical husk - forms the center of Girl Model, and that is enough.
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60
Sep 6, 2012
There are no supermodels or Cinderellas in this sadly compelling story, just predators and the impoverished dreamers who want to trust them.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 4, 2012
While Girl Model falls a bit short in the delivery of hard facts and incriminating evidence, it more than makes up for that with its knotty psychological profile of Arbaugh.
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50
Sep 4, 2012
It is hard to know whether to applaud directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin for exposing the underside of the fashion business – or demand they abandon their documentarian stance and rescue young Nadya on the spot.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
5 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
11% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
5 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
11% Negative
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Release Date Sep 7, 2012
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.girlmodelthemovie.com/
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Awards

Rome Film Fest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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