
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent ab... (Full plot summary below)
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Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere.
Leave your thoughts about 36 Fillette.
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe Jan Brady of the filmmaker's trilogy of puberty-agonizing explorers |
| User ReviewPrivate UThe very first Catherine Breillat film I've seen and I love it. 36 Fillette totally promotes sexual exploration at a young age. Not only is this movie about discovering one's own sexuality, but it also touches on love/lust and heartache. Can't get enough of the honesty in this film, no matter how uncomfortable it may be - something very typical of Breillat films. |
| User ReviewJ. ADelphine Zentout is incredibly sexy in this average "coming of age" film |
| User ReviewJeff MI agree with the most recent review put forward by Cynthia M...whoever the heck that is. I like Breillat films because I find them so disturbing on so many levels. There is nothing quite like a decent film that remains in your mind for years afterwards. |
| User ReviewSteve CBreillat explores confusion in female sexuality through 14 year old Lili, a virgin who's desperate to be rid of what she sees as her deficiency, as if the world of adulthood, love, and romance will magically welcome her the moment she does. She's confused about her desires. In one poignant scene, Lili blames herself for not being attracted to the man she thinks she should sleep with. As if there were something wrong with her, and any NORMAL woman would want to do it. When she balks at the sexual act, she tells him he's despicable, accuses him of assault, wonders why she's not attracted to this man, then when they part, she asks him out again. Great insights, but the ending throws me off. When Lili finally has sex, she does so in an inconsequential encounter, a loveless thing with a teenage boy she has no feelings for, and the scene's presented as sexual liberation. Yes she's "taken back" her body (from patriarchal claims of ownership? from misogynistic fascination with virginity?) but she still has no idea what she wants, or how she feels, she's still estranged from her self, and the notion of sex as consumable good, or that empowerment arises from having emotionless sex "like a man" reminds me of Sex and the City and the faux feminism of Girl Power. What's all that about? |
| User ReviewMelissa KKinda slow-paced indeed, but worth watching. |
| User ReviewCourtney CBreillat understands sexuality like no other. |
| User ReviewCatherine LAnother great film from Breillat as an exploration of adolescence in sexual terms - but also of adulthood through the eyes of a teenager. Very crude and raw. There is a truthfulness in her films, an honesty, a rawness that comes in your face and can only touch you and make you think. |
| User ReviewBen DThe first film to bring Catherine Breillat to an international audience, and the first to explore her interest in female sexuality. The film is constructed in a familiar French form - the seaside holiday - but becomes franker than any take so far. A film that shows considerably talent. |
| User ReviewEmily BPretty good spin on the Lolita idea. I'm still watching it twenty years later so it's got a level of endurance! Unfortunately the dvd is sorely lacking. The print is just awful. |