Synopsis
An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée, 1985) is Claude Miller's French coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. It's summer, you're thirteen, and the whole world feels rigged against you.
Charlotte is convinced she's plain and furious at everyone. Her big brother heads off on holiday without her, her father is distracted, and her only friend is a sickly ten-year-old neighbour she keeps shooing away and rescuing. Things shift when a girl her own age arrives in town — Clara, a piano prodigy who promises to take Charlotte along on tour. Charlotte Gainsbourg nails the exact age when love for the people closest to you only comes out as cruelty.
Miller paints one of French cinema's truest portraits of adolescence, and the young Gainsbourg won the César for Most Promising Actress for it. No plot fireworks — just character, mood and the awkwardness of growing up. A quiet film for anyone who remembers being thirteen. Stream An Impudent Girl (1985) online on iFILM.
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