A Real Young Girl

Director: Catherine Breillat

1976 / 89min / 4K DCP

Completed in 1976 but not given a theatrical release until 2000, Breillat’s censor-infuriating, no-punches-pulled feature debut, an adaptation of her own fourth novel, Le Soupirail, that ranks among the most daring depictions of budding sexuality ever made, stars Charlotte Alexandra as Alice, a 14-year-old boarding school student who, back with her peasant parents at their home in the Landes forest—where the Sexual Revolution most certainly has not arrived in 1963—brings no end of grief to her parents (Bruno Balp and Rita Maiden) with her erotomaniac obsessions, many focused handsome on handyman Hiram Keller.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Sex is Confusion