Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60’s in Brussels (1994)

Original title

Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles

Directed by

Chantal Akerman

Genre

tv movie, drama, romance

Country

France

Runtime

1h

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl in 1960s Brussels skips school and wanders the city with a boy she meets. They talk about politics, art, and their own desires over the course of a few days.

introspectivenostalgicmelancholicunderstatedslow-burnintimatebittersweet

What happens

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (French: Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles) is a 1994 television film by Belgian feminist and avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman. It is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story with feminist and LGBT themes. The film was created for Arte's nine-part series Tous les garcons et les filles de leur âge (All the Boys and Girls of Their Age). The series, which belongs to le jeune cinéma français (the Young French Cinema) movement of the 1990s, has been described as "'enormously influential" by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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