A Girl’s Story

Name: A Girl’s Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-09-30
Duration: 117 min
Cast: Sephora Pondi, François-Xavier Raffier, Léa Léviant, Georgia Scalliet, Tess Barthélémy

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Release Date

9/30/2026

Runtime

117 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

During a book signing in Normandy, Annie Ernaux, 70, revisits her memories of the summer of 1958, when she was 17. That summer, she left her hometown to work as a camp counsellor. At the first party, the head counsellor set out to deflower her. Finding him handsome, she lets him do it, as if against her will... Her body becomes a foreign place for her, an offering to be sacrificed.

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Released

Original Language

French

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A meditative reckoning with formative trauma, oscillating between a 70-year-old woman's present reflection and her 17-year-old self's fractured experience of violation and bodily estrangement. The film asks what it means to look back on a moment when your body felt like something that happened to you rather than belonged to you.