A Very Curious Girl

A Very Curious Girl
Directed by Nelly Kaplan
Produced by Moshe Mizrahi
Screenplay by Anne Fontaine
Claude Makovski
Jacques Serguine
Michel Fabre
Starring Bernadette Lafont
Georges Géret
Music by Georges Moustaki
Cinematography Jean Badal
Edited by Nelly Kaplan
Release dates
  • 3 December 1969 (France)
Running time
 106 minutes
Country France
Language French

A Very Curious Girl (French title "La Fiancée du pirate") is a 1969 film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan.[1] [2][3] Other English titles are "Dirty Mary" and "Pirate's Fiancée".[4][5] The "curious girl" is played by Bernadette Lafont.

Plot

A young girl lives in a town where all the citizens used to treat her badly. When her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident she decides that things have to change. Eventually she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her.

Cast

Score

Georges Moustaki's soundtrack was released in the same year as the film.[4]

  1. Histoire du Cirque (1:22)
  2. Duo (2:21)
  3. La Mort (2:08)
  4. Pierre et Nicole (2:44)
  5. Thème de Franca (1:37)
  6. A Lisbonne (fado) (1:37)
  7. Retour à L'hôtel (2:18)
  8. Le Scandale / Suite (11:40)
  9. Mona (1:31)
  10. Anne et Claude au Musée (2:27)
  11. Le Désespoir de Muriel (3:52)
  12. La Déclaration d'Amour (2:25)
  13. La Rupture (3.46)
  14. Epilogue (2:25)
  15. Une Petite Ile (1:30)
  16. Anne et Claude (2:05)
  17. Moi, Je Me Balance (2:46)
  18. Marche de Marie (2:35)

Critical reception

The New York Times listed "A curious girl" as one of Bernadette Lafont's most notable films.[6] The website filmfanatic.org put this film into the category "Foreign Gem". [7] The Guardian mentions "A curious girl" in her obituary and states Lafont's performance had been "brilliant".[8]

References

  1. ↑ "La fiancée du pirate". virtual-history.com. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  2. ↑ "A very curious girl". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Nelly Kaplan's English Biography". oswego.edu. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Fiancée Du Pirate, La (1969)". soundtrackcollector.com. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  5. ↑ "Pirate's Fiancée". screenrush.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  6. ↑ Knorr, Katherine (1997-11-15). "Bernadette Lafont:Unwinding the Reels". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  7. ↑ "Very Curious Girl, A (1969)". filmfanatic.org. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  8. ↑ Bergan, Ronald (2013-07-26). "Bernadette Lafont obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-07-27.

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