36 Fillette

This feature from Catherine Breillat, the coscreenwriter of Maurice Pialat's POLICE, 36 FILLETTE presents a grim, realistic portrait of teenage sexuality and also manages to be wholly pointless. The slightly chunky Delphine Zentout plays Lili, a punkish 14-year-old on holiday with her uncaring parents and her elder brother. She meets Maurice (Etienne Chicot), a balding, paunchy playboy in his 40s, who compares women to cars (he likes to change them often) and would prefer to have sex with goats (they expect less). The rest of the film details a mating ritual in which Lili teases Maurice, Maurice tries to rape Lili, Lili fights back, Maurice tries to get rid of her,...