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A Girl’s Story

2026 · 117 min

A quiet, haunting excavation of memory that lingers in discomfort, asking you to sit with a young woman's dissociation and the long shadow it casts.

Directed by
Judith Godrèche
Genres
Drama
Starring
Tess Barthélémy, Valérie Dréville, Victor Bonnel
Overview
During a book signing in Normandy, Annie Ernaux, 70, revisits her memories of the summer of 1958, when she was 17. That summer, she left her hometown to work as a camp counsellor. At the first party, the head counsellor set out to deflower her. Finding him handsome, she lets him do it, as if against her will... Her body becomes a foreign place for her, an offering to be sacrificed.

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Directed by
Judith Godrèche
Genres
Drama
Starring
Tess Barthélémy, Valérie Dréville, Victor Bonnel
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • trauma
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • power
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Directed by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Country
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Languages
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