A Very Curious Girl

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Wikipedia article 'A Very Curious Girl' is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. Other English titles are 'Dirty Mary' and 'Pirate's Fiance'. Plot Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and 'commune' of Tellier (an allusion to 'La Maison Tellier') with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also a sexual object for them, including her lesbian boss Irne. One day, when her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident and the locals do not even bother to bury her, Marie decides that things have to change and starts to charge people who have sex with her. Eventually, she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her. Cast * Bernadette Lafont as Marie * Georges Gret as Gaston Duvalier, the village guard * Michel Constantin as Andr, the projectionist * Julien Guiomar as the Duke * Jean Pards as Monsieur Paul, the herbalist * Francis Lax as mile, the 'commune' council member * Claire Maurier as Irne, Marie's boss * Marcel Prs as Grandpa * Pascal Mazzotti : Abb Dard * Jacques Masson : Hippolyte Duvalier, Gaston's son * Henry Czarniak : Julien, Irne's farmhand * Jacques Marin : Flix Lechat, the caf owner * Micha Bayard : Mlanie La Goulette Lechat, Flix's wife * Fernand Berset : Jeanjean, the lingerie salesman * Rene Duncan : Fifine (Delphine), mile's wife * Gilberte Gniat : Rose, the Duke's wife * Claire Olivier : Marie's mother * Louis Malle : Jsus, the Duke's Spanish farmhand * Claude Makovski : Victor, the shop owner Score Georges Moustaki's soundtrack was released in the same year as the film. # Histoire du Cirque (1:22) # Duo (2:21) # La Mort (2:08) # Pierre et Nicole (2:44) # Thme de Franca (1:37) # A Lisbonne (fado) (1:37) # Retour L'htel (2:18) # Le Scandale / Suite (11:40) # Mona (1:31) # Anne et Claude au Muse (2:27) # Le Dsespoir de Muriel (3:52) # La Dclaration d'Amour (2:25) # La Rupture (3.46) # Epilogue (2:25) # Une Petite Ile (1:30) # Anne et Claude (2:05) # Moi, Je Me Balance (2:46) # Marche de Marie (2:35) Critical reception 'The New York Times' listed 'A Very Curious Girl' as one of Bernadette Lafont's most notable films. The website filmfanatic.org put this film into the category "Foreign Gem". The Guardian mentions "A curious girl" in her obituary and states Lafont's performance had been "brilliant". References
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