Whatever bar I once had to measure boredom while watching a movie, it might have been surpassed by 17 Girls. It's hard for me to even express how little interest I had in this film. I dozed off 3 times, before deciding I had to stop and wait to finish the film the next day. Basically what seems to have happened is that a couple of filmmakers found out the true story of a high school where a bunch of girls all decided to get pregnant and raise their kids together. The problem was that, when writing the screenplay, they didn't take the time in order to make a plot or characters to help engage the audience in the story of these girls, so there's very little movie here. There are barely any defining characteristics to differentiate any of the stars of the film other than their names and faces. A couple times they have very minor personality traits, but most of the way through it's just a mass of pregnant teens. The ending might have been the most anticlimactic thing I've ever seen, and it left me annoyed. There's simply no movie here, I don't even know if there is enough for a short film. Perhaps that's the artistic statement Delphine and Muriel Coulin were trying to make, a film that was just as vapid as the teens featured in it. If you are looking to fall asleep quickly, then a little time with 17 Girls might take care of that for you.
Review of 17 Girls
