#girlhood
30 day film Diary
Film 2: Girlhood (2014)
okay so clearly this isnt a 30 films in one month challenge anymore as its proven to be a little more difficult than i thought haha, it took me three days to watch this film as i’m still trying to get used to watching a full film in one setting.
Girlhood is a french film about a young girl called Mariem who struggles with finding a place for herself in a society and community that holds her down and expects to much from her, at first i got the impression that the girl gang she joins was bad news and that it would change her life for the worse, but i was surprised at how close she got to the girls and she managed to grow and become more confident (although it was through not so good means that she was influenced to do)
the film has a consistent style and cinematography that i wasn’t a big fan of personally, the camera was most of the time too steady almost?? which might have been done for a specific reason, although i did like the lighting used.
some of the scenes felt too long (such as the scenes the girls dancing at the hotel to a full song? i just don’t understand why they had to shoot the whole song as if its a music video??)and the story confused me at times, the ending was open ended which was interesting. I also would have wanted to see more of the relationship between mariam and her mom and sisters.
Overall I felt the film was interesting and shed a light on the lives of young people of colour in france and the rough lives they lead that isn’t represented as much, especially in a simple non stereotypical form which this film kinda achieves.
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oh to be sitting next to anya taylor joy , drinking black coffee , painting our nails crimson , scrolling through tumblr , smoking cigarettes , and discussing the struggles of girlhood and the beauty of film
‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.’
- Marianne Williamson
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“Girlhood,” Mastermind Magazine Issue 8
Photographer: Stef Mitchell
Fashion Editor: Jason Rider
Hair Stylist: Mustafa Yanaz
Makeup Artist: Jen Myles
Model: Katie Johnson
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Anne Carson, “Kitchen,” in: Glass, Irony, and God
feeling this way
actually me
girlhood is coming to an end and i’m not ready for it.
ajattelen uusia teoksia
haluaisin kuvata dokumentin
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thinking about new works
i think i want to film a documentary
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“i’m not like other girls” branching paths
- girls don’t act like this; obviously there is something wrong with me, and i need to fall into self-hatred and self-suppression in order to be palatable and acceptable to my peers.
- girls don’t act like this; obviously my individual behaviors mean that i need to adopt an individual microlabel that “fits” me and excuses my behaviors. femininity and sex stereotypes are for other girls and women, not me.
- girls don’t act like this; obviously this can be put down to my youth and naivete, and i need to start adopting feminine behaviors and act more according to sex stereotypes. girls and women who continue acting in “un-feminine” ways have internalized misogyny, or they aren’t actually girls/women.
- girls often don’t act like this, but this is because our behavior is strictly controlled. femininity and sex stereotypes don’t define a woman. more girls and women, though not all of them, would act like me if we were free to behave how we wanted. all girls and women have inner lives.
• Men explaining: Girls
Girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb, N.Y.C., 1957 - Diane Arbus
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
- Jeffrey Eugenides
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salma deera the burning ones (via@facinaoris) \ maggie meiners girl interrupted, edition 3/9 \ marie ponsot springing: new and selected poems: “a visit”\ philippa langrish 1\ catherine forster “cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, rose” \ marie howe the girl (viamikhail iossel) \ sarah paulsen the slumber party
Melissa Febos, Girlhood
