The Girl (2000)
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12% of critics liked it
(33 reviews) -
42% of users liked it
(1,032 ratings)
Two women discover new love while trying to resolve their old relationships in this stylized drama. The Girl (Claire Keim) is a beautiful, bisexual cabaret singer who one night meets The Painter (Agathe de la Boulaye), an artist who is immediately and intensely attracted to her. The Girl and The… More Two women discover new love while trying to resolve their old relationships in this stylized drama. The Girl (Claire Keim) is a beautiful, bisexual cabaret singer who one night meets The Painter (Agathe de la Boulaye), an artist who is immediately and intensely attracted to her. The Girl and The Painter spend the night together, and are soon involved in an ongoing relationship, with The Painter spending most of her time at The Girl's flat in Paris. Meanwhile, The Painter finds it's not easy to break off her relationship with Bu Save (Sandra N'Kake), while The Girl is trying to keep her boyfriend, The Man (Cyril Lecomte), from finding out to much about her new romance, since she needs to maintain their relationship for the sake of her career. The Girl is the first feature film from Sandee Zeig, who helped to open the independent distribution firm Artistic License; it's based on a novella by Monique Wittig, who wrote the screenplay with Zeig. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sande Zeig
- Written By
- Sande Zeig, Monique Wittig
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 20, 2001 Limited
- Studio
- Artistic License Films
Critic Reviews
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Derek Elley, Variety
Pretentious dialogue is matched by equally uninvolving performances in this debut feature by Sande Zeig.
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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Forces you to endure endless streams of badly written paragraphs of pseudo-poetic existentialism to get to the sex parts.
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Loren King, Boston Globe
Its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
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Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Celebrates the emotional and physical liberation that comes with lovemaking, while also recognizing that such exhilaration sometimes carries a price.
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Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
Numbingly dull and repetitive.
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