Seeing Hounddog today and the 12-year-old Dakota Fanning, I wanted to compare it with a French film, specifically a Catherine Breillat film with a 14-year-old Delphine Zentout in her film debut.
She is unhappy with her parents and bored and determined to lose her virginity.
She first runs into a middle aged man (Etienne Chicot) who is living his second childhood with his convertible. She dumps him quickly and seeks adventure elsewhere.
She next hits on a celebrity (Jean-Pierre Léaud). I found it hard to believe that he would have a deep conversation with a 14-year-old, but he did. Of course, she was not old enough to appreciate the advice.
She goes back to the middle aged playboy and strings him along all night. He comes off as a letch, but ends up just looking pathetic.
They get together again the next day, and this time he has her naked, but it goes nowhere and he gives up. But, she is determined to rid herself of her virginity, so she finds a boy her age and does it just to not be a virgin any longer. It was like washing her hair.
She is unhappy with her parents and bored and determined to lose her virginity.
She first runs into a middle aged man (Etienne Chicot) who is living his second childhood with his convertible. She dumps him quickly and seeks adventure elsewhere.
She next hits on a celebrity (Jean-Pierre Léaud). I found it hard to believe that he would have a deep conversation with a 14-year-old, but he did. Of course, she was not old enough to appreciate the advice.
She goes back to the middle aged playboy and strings him along all night. He comes off as a letch, but ends up just looking pathetic.
They get together again the next day, and this time he has her naked, but it goes nowhere and he gives up. But, she is determined to rid herself of her virginity, so she finds a boy her age and does it just to not be a virgin any longer. It was like washing her hair.