English titles: Charlotte and Lulu; Impudent Girl; The Hussy.
Based on the novel The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers, first published in 1946 (no credit is given).
Charlotte is a 13-year-old girl living with her father and her older brother in a lower middle-class neighborhood in a small French town. She lost her mother at birth, and has no interest in socializing with her school mates. Her closest friends are the house maid and a younger girl who has an unspecified chronic illness and sleeps over at her house once in a while. She meets a pianist child prodigy and develops a sort of adoration towards her. She meets a sailor on shore leave and they start a romantic relationship of sorts, although her ignorance in such matters is a problem.
Mildly interesting adaptation of the abovementioned novel, but why no credit? One person on IMDB said that only the French can make such "honest" depictions of adolescence, which Americans could never... Thus, you see that not giving credit doesn't mean just stealing one specific work, it's greater than that, it is stealing another country's cultural status. The ironic citation of The Exorcist is an intelligent touch though (troubled teenage girls as possessed beings).
Rating: 50
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