The poor; the lost; the malfunctioning. Before Céline Sciamma’s superb Girlhood (Bande de filles) my life seemed complete without knowing about rootless girls from immigrant families groping ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Sciamma and her cinematographer ... Where many filmmakers would have underlined the bleaker, harsher aspects, Girlhood presents the characters’ grim reality ...

The tough African-French girls living in the projects in Girlhood have been abused and pushed out of the system. While they don’t have much, they have each other. This summer we had the film ...

The director's approach is intimate and observational. The film is about friendship, shifting hierarchies and the many small decisions its main character, Marieme (Karidja Touré), has to make on ...

It is no surprise that a French film called ‘‘Girlhood’’ was a big hit on the Indie circuit this year and that it is already streaming on Netflix. Besides it being beautifully shot and its ...

“Girlhood” takes one of contemporary film’s most familiar themes, a teenage girl’s coming of age, and makes it feel like we’ve never truly seen it before. Beautifully observed, precisely ...

title turns into a cryptic art film that eludes easy definition or even description? Debatably, “Girlhood” is a more apt name, given that writer-director Celine Sciamma is playing with gender ...

Celine Sciamma’s “Girlhood,” above, which opened Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in May, won the top prize, the Bronze Horse, at the Stockholm Film Festival Nov. 14. Strong American contenders ...

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“The film really charmed everyone,” said Brigaud-Robert, explaining that the high pedigree and range of “Girlhood’s” buyers reflect the crossover potential of the film. Although it’s ...

But Girlhood transcends issues of race with keen observations of teenage life in today’s world, rendering the film both intimate and universal. The film’s central scene is a private one in ...