17 girls

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Movie
German title 17 girls
Original title 17 filles
17 girl poster.jpg
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2011
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 8
Rod
Director Delphine Coulin ,
Muriel Coulin
script Delphine Coulin,
Muriel Coulin
production Denis Freyd
camera Jean-Louis Vialard
cut Guy Lecorne
occupation

17 girls (original title: 17 filles ) is a feature film released in 2011 by the French directors Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin . It is her first feature film. The film deals with the subject of minor motherhood and is based on an actual “pregnancy pact” of 17 school girls in Gloucester , Massachusetts , USA , as was the 2010 film The Pregnancy Pact .

In Germany, the film opened on June 14, 2012 at Arsenal Filmverleih .

action

In Lorient , a town in Brittany , 17 girls from a high school make an unusual pact: Against all odds and the lack of understanding of parents, teachers and young fathers, they get pregnant at the same time.

After the leader of the clique, Camille, became pregnant unintentionally and decided to keep the child, she worked the girls in her clique to become pregnant as well. With this, the young women want to evade the traditional curriculum vitae in their small town and give their life a new meaning and escape the marked paths. Because a child would be someone who loves them unconditionally. Camille wants to raise her child alone. The father of her child plays only a minor role for her, but above all she wants to do better than her often absent mother. In their youthful idealism, the girls decide to raise their children together in a commune. But not everything is going as planned. At the end of the film, Camille is in a car accident and is rushed to a hospital where she miscarries. In the credits it is told that Camille and her mother each left the city after the incident and that they never saw Camille again.

Actresses

Louise Grinberg played already in the class of Laurent Cantet , Roxane Duran in The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke , and Esther Garrel had a role in House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello , the 2011 competition in Cannes ran. The majority of the girls, however, had never been in a film. Yara Pilartz and Juliette Darche had never acted before.

Reviews

The film received numerous reviews in the media. Stefanie Hentschel writes in Brigitte : “In its quiet, unobtrusive way, this film inspired me like hardly any other this year. [...] Motherhood as a manifesto of self-determination, devised by strong, self-confident young women - that's what the sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin tell in their first feature film so tenderly and truthfully that I was enchanted from the very first moment. ”The Stuttgart city magazine Lift attests the film "a lot of discussion potential".

Epd Film writes that 17 girls "are as provocative as they are sensitive and despite the controversial topic [...] always funny". Melanie Dorda describes on kinofenster.de how the filmusesits aesthetic means (camera work, narrative perspective, coloring, diegetic film music) to reflect the “stark contrast between the wishes and desires of the girls and the reality of their pregnancies”. She sums up: “The strength of the film lies in the fact that it depicts the group behavior of the girls very precisely and that it conveys the impetus of this phase of life well. He takes the teenagers and their rebellion seriously and does not judge them. This provides 17 girls with a study of growing up that leaves plenty of room for their own interpretations. ”Sonja Hartl from kino-zeit.de thinks the film is“ worth seeing ”, but“ now, in the end, there is the realization that is also expressed in the film that dreaming 17-year-old girls were unstoppable. And with this statement, the film worth seeing makes it a little too easy. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 17 girls . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 298 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for 17 girls . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ 17 girls pregnant at the same time - The Pregnancy Pact . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 20, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b 17 girls on kino-zeit.de
  5. ↑ Brigitte , No. 14/2012.
  6. ↑ Lift , No. 6/2012.
  7. ↑ epd Film , No. 6/2012.
  8. ↑ Melanie Dorda: 17 Girls - Film of the Month June 2012 . kinofenster.de , Federal Agency for Civic Education and Vision Cinema , June 5, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012.