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Join us on May 12 at 1 p.m. for our weekly Sunday screening series, featuring the 2014 award-winning drama “Girlhood” in 2K digital projection.
GIRLHOOD | 2014 | DIRECTOR: Céline Sciamma | WITH: Karidja Toure, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh | RUNNING TIME: 1H 53M | UNRATED contains violent content, sexual situations, brief nudity and alcohol/smoking | 2K DIGITAL PROJECTION
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
“Céline Sciamma’s “Girlhood” can be described (like so many movies these days) as a coming-of-age story, and it honors the genre, and its main character, with exemplary sensitivity and sympathy. But even as she stops at familiar stations on the road to maturity — problems at home and school, new friendships and first love — Ms. Sciamma revels in the risky, reckless exuberance of adolescence and in the sheer joy of filming it.
“While “Girlhood” is sad and wrenching, it doesn’t feel like a misery-mongering expression of high-minded (and therefore condescending) concern. This is because Karidja Touré, evolving from the shy Marieme into the assertive Vic, carries herself with the kind of dignity that disarms all pity, and also because Ms. Sciamma is less interested in what Marieme might represent than in what she experiences.
“While the movie has a lot to say about the general condition of being a girl, in the Paris banlieues and elsewhere, it never loses sight of the specific girl at its heart.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The screening will be introduced by Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez. Tickets are $5 and available at link above. Students use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission. Cane card must be shown at the door.
