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A Single Girl

1995 · 1h 30m · N/A Drama
Directed by Benoît Jacquot

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A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.

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75%
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Rotten

A Single Girl delivers 80 unbroken and ultimately irritating minutes in the life of a pretty hotel waitress (Virginie Ledoyen).

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

A stunning demonstration of moral and existential suspense in relation to duration, much like Agnes Varda's 1961 Cleo From 5 to 7.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Even though nothing much happens during the course of the movie (Valerie spends over half the running time wandering around the inside of a hotel), this is a thoroughly engrossing motion picture.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

Benoit Jacquot's small, dazzling film A Single Girl is so buoyant, sharp-eyed and casually sexy it comes closer than any recent movie to capturing the essence of youth itself.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

A Single Girl shines because of Ledoyen, but sputters in not taking her character anyplace.

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

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