1969 · comedy · drama · satire
A Very Curious Girl
Directed by Nelly Kaplan1h 42m1969
Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
Our read: A Very Curious Girl (1969) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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