Fresh
From the opening montage of Marieme and other girls playing American football in full uniform, "Girlhood" resonates as something special.
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Overview
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
Director and cast
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96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Girlhood" is about as grim as movies get, but it's showing something real, and Sciamma has a feel for this period of life, the camaraderie, the jokes, the kinds of conflicts, the panic and the hope.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Director Sciamma uses an uncommonly light touch in depicting Marieme's gradual transformation from an unformed blank slate into a self-assured girl who doesn't always make the right decisions in the process of figuring herself out.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) gets unaffected performances from her non-professional cast.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
"Girlhood" is a mesmerizing exercise in the enlightenment that can happen when a filmmaker shifts the male cinematic gaze ever so slightly and uncovers what looks like a whole new world.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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