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Girl (2019)
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Critic Consensus: Girl uses one aspiring dancer's story as the framework for a poignant drama that approaches its difficult themes with fittingly alluring grace.
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Cast
as Lara
as Milo
as Lewis
as le docteur Naert, Le docteur Naert - le médecin
as Le docteur Pascal - le psychiatre
as Hannah
as Opa
as Oma
as Meme
as Anne
as Tom
as Juf Ilse
as Louise
as Chirurg
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Critic Reviews for Girl
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This film makes a gentle point of the fact that transitioning isn't trouble-free even if most of the people around you are broadly sympathetic to the undertaking.
Unfortunately, despite strenuous pretenses of compassion, Girl's escalating obsessions reprise long histories of cruel, transphobic storytelling.
A curiously unjust, myopic, even dangerous movie.
A performance infused with great stillness and energy from actor/dancer Victor Polster drives Belgian director/co-writer Lukas Dhont's affecting if uneven coming-of-age tale.
Having seen the film, this cis critic certainly wouldn't claim to understand the reality of life as a trans person. It makes me want to, though.
Even disregarding the controversy, Girl does not work, mainly because Dhont's focus is all wrong.
Audience Reviews for Girl
Despite its questionable casting (although we can understand the difficulty of finding a transgender actress for the role) and an ending that feels like a cop-out, Lukas Dhont creates a sensitive film that makes us share the character's anguish as she struggles with self-acceptance.
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