17 Girls (2011)

Original title

17 filles

Directed by

Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 329 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl becomes pregnant and then convinces 16 other girls at her school to get pregnant too. The film follows the girls as they navigate the reactions of their school and families.

contemplativeunderstatedrealistictenseemotionalslightly unsettlingslow-burnsombre

What happens

17 Girls (French: 17 filles) is a 2011 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Delphine and Muriel Coulin and starring Louise Grinberg as a teenage girl who becomes pregnant, later influencing 16 other girls at her school to become pregnant as well. The film had its premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, before being theatrically released in France on 14 December 2011. The film was inspired by an alleged pregnancy pact which took place at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts in 2008, which the 2010 American film The Pregnancy Pact is also based on. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• All Our Desires (2011)
• The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
• Poursuite (2011)
• Q (2011)
• Declaration of War (2011)
• Le vernis craque (2011)
• The Moon Child (2011)
• The Adopted (2011)