17 Girls
- Louise Grinberg: Camille
- Juliette Darche: Julia
- Roxane Duran: Florence
- Esther Garrel: Flavie
- Solene Rigot: Mathilde
- Yara Pilartz: Clémentine
- Florence Thomassin: Camille's mother
- Noémie Lvovsky: Nurse
- Carlo Brandt: headmaster
- Frédéric Noaille: Florian
- Arthur Verret: Tom
17 Girls ( original title: 17 filles ) is a published in 2011 feature film by French director Delphine and Muriel Coulin interior. It is her first feature film. The film deals with the theme of motherhood minors and is based on an actual " pregnancy pact" of 17 schoolgirls in the U.S. Gloucester, Massachusetts, as well as the movie The Pregnancy Pact published in 2010.
In Germany the film opened on 14 June 2012 at the Arsenal Film Distribution.
Action
In Lorient, a town in Brittany, close 17 girls a secondary school an unusual pact: Against all odds and the incomprehension of parents, teachers and the young fathers in spite of they are simultaneously pregnant.
After the leader of the clique, Camille, an unplanned pregnancy and decides to keep the child, she acts on the girls in her clique to be pregnant too. So the young women try to avoid the traditional resume in their small town and give her life a new meaning and escape the marked trails. For a child would be someone who loves them unconditionally. Camille wants to raise her child alone. The father of her child plays for them only a minor role, but most of all she wants to do better than their frequently absent mother. The girls decide in their youthful idealism, raise their children together in a commune. But not everything goes the way they planned it.
Actresses
Louise Grinberg has already played in Class by Laurent Cantet, Roxane Duran had in The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke, and Esther Garrel play a role in the house of sin by Bertrand Bonello, which was in competition at Cannes 2011. The majority of the girls, however, had never played in a movie. Yara Pilartz and Juliette Darche had never been acting.
Reviews
The film received numerous reviews in the media. So Stefanie Hentschel writes in the Brigitte: " In his quiet, unobtrusive way, i still like this film has thrilled more than any other this year. [ ... ] Motherhood as a manifesto of self-determination, conceived by strong, confident young women - that tell the sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin in her first feature film so tenderly and truly, that I was enchanted from the first moment " attests Stuttgart city magazine lift. the movie " a lot of discussion potential." The magazine for Church and Culture calls the film a " jewel of independent cinema " and praises the supposed message of the film against abortion.
Epd film writes, 17 girls " is so provocative as sensitive and controversial topic, despite the [ ... ] always funny too ." Melanie Dorda on kinofenster.de describes how the film 's aesthetic means ( cinematography, narrative perspective, coloring, diegetic film music ) is used to reflect the " stark contrast between the wishes and aspirations of girls and the reality of their pregnancies ." She says: "The strength of the film is that it very accurately characterized the group behavior of the girls and the impetuosity of this phase of life well communicated. He takes the teen and her rebellion seriously and not rated. This provides 17 girls a study of growing up, which leaves much room for interpretation. " Sonja Hartl of kino-zeit.de holds the film, although for" worth seeing ", but" now stands at the end of the film also marked the realization that dreaming 17 -year-old girls were unstoppable. And with this statement, it makes the film worth seeing a little too easy. "