At the beginning of the film carries Marieme (Karidja Touré) huge shoulder pads and a helmet. She is 16 years old and plays after school American football. Unlike in armor to the student in the next two movies hour never see – because the heavy leather jacket and thick makeup she’s wearing soon, are nothing more than equipment for a fight, and the fight’s survival in the suburbs.
“Bande de Filles” is the third film of the French director and screenwriter Céline Sciamma. Were her first works “Water Lilies” and “Tomboy” still cautious exploration of the female coming-of-age, she presents with “Bande de Filles” in front of an unequal bulkier film.
The four girls from the eponymous gang of girls can not afford to act other than self-confident, they want to survive on the streets and in the homes of their neighborhood. The raw energy that develop the four, the film not only captures, transferring it directly through its brilliant images, the pulsating music of Para One and not least by the play of his uncut amateur actors. This makes “Bande de Filles” so exciting and wipes any apprehension from the table, could it have to do with a leaden social drama here.
One or two times must be asked the restrained Marieme, then she joined the rebellious Lady (Assa Sylla) and their gang. On lazy days, they move together through the neighborhood, eating fast food and chatting with the guys. At wilder days they button their classmates from protection money, go into town to-mouth and provide with other gangs beating duels that can be reviewed later, thanks to mobile clips on the internet the rest of the district. The girls appear outlaws – were it not for men.Ergaunertes luck for the night
rule the streets the dealers and pimps, and decide which girl to them for what could be services. In the apartments, the brothers who brag about their sexual conquests prevail, but freak out when someone approaches her sisters. In this environment, which is characterized by economic prospects and patriarchal reprimand, the girls try so to live self-determined as possible. And Marieme is the first that is ready for it to go to the limits.
“girlhood” was the title of international “Bande de Filles” for a while. That sounded good to pandering to Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age epic “Boyhood”, which is why you came back from rental page from the original French title. This “Bande de Filles” also has something universal to tell over the growing up – just from a female perspective.
Despite the accuracy with which Sciamma outlining the dynamics in the troubled area, do not serve namely the exoticism of their main characters, but shows that even under severe conditions, the umbilical cord of the family runs quite similar and the first sex with proven street fighters as well can be awkward as sheltered high school girls.The most powerful scene in the film both levels, the exact drawing of the environment and of growing fall, but together. The girls have pooled their money and extorted a hotel room rented for a night to be alone undisturbed. With bags of coke, alcohol and evening gowns, where the price tags still attached, so that they can return them back, they move in. One after another they lead their new outfits before, finally they find themselves together in front of the big mirror in the room together and singing “Diamonds” by Rihanna.
There is a ergaunertes happiness that celebrate the girls there. But just because you do not know how they should otherwise provide some moments of carelessness, you can treat them this night all the more. Eye to Eye, So Alive / We’re Beautiful Like Diamonds in the Sky.
Bande de Filles
France 2014
Written and directed by: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré, Idrissa Diabaté
production :. Hold Up Films, Lilies Films, Arte France Cinéma et al
Loan: Peripherals
Length: 113 minutes
From: February 26, 2015
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