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A Girl's Own Story

A Girl's Own Story

1984
Short Film
27m
A look at three girls, young teens, in the era of the Beatles. Pam lives with parents who haven't spoken directly to each other in two years, using their daughters to talk across the table to each other. Gloria wants to play games with her boyfriend Graeme and ends up pregnant after a kissless, passionless introduction to sex. Stella becomes popular and puts her friendship with Pam on hold. Meanwhile, Pam's father and other predatory men lurk in the shadows around the girls. (imdb)

A Girl's Own Story

1984
Short Film
27m
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Avg Percentile 51.2% from 54 total ratings

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Rated 05 Jan 2023
50
44th
For an Australian film, this deserves credit for offering something other than the most predictably conformist fare, focusing on the troubles and confusions of incipient female sexual awareness in a 1960s Australia that is still rather closed yet exposed to the emergent culture industry. Performances and production are fairly rudimentary, but the feeling that what we have been shown amounts to a source of real suffering is reinforced by an effective concluding song (composed by Alex Proyas).
Rated 09 Aug 2021
80
70th
Cinema 16: World Short Films
Rated 20 Nov 2011
75
74th
The song at the end is amazing!
Rated 23 May 2010
52
8th
Shows moments of potential but for the most part it's unfocused and vacillates between pretension and stupidity.
Rated 21 Jun 2009
68
78th
Sexy, somewhat juvenile and very challenging short film, exploring the sexuality of teenage girls. There are plenty of experimentation and narrative isn't very coherent. But this isn't a film that tells the story, more like it tries to recreate the feeling, the atmosphere. It feels very personal and womanly.
Rated 18 Dec 2008
55
11th
Film school production, and it shows. Has that cocky

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