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L'Effrontee

2003, Movie, NR, 96 mins

L'Effrontee: Review

Director Claude Miller’s glorious coming-of-age movie is the French equivalent of MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952); four writers collaborated on this screenplay, but their handiwork is seamless. Raised by her overworked, impatient father, petulant 13-year-old Charlotte Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is always at odds with both her peers and her elders in her bourgeois community. A misfit by virtue of her tomboyish manner and lack of coordination, Charlotte graduates from grammar ... read more leave a comment