Girl
As even a very brief examination of key works will show, development of the cinematic language was, from the very start, linked to a particular subject matter. This subject was the family, typically the threat of its dismemberment, either by loss of a child or by the death, separation, or violation of a parent.
– N. Browne
Using some of the devices of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – as some kind of destiny, ‘Girl’ deals with the need and impossibility of re‑creating a time, a place, a memory.
Cross‑cutting between the girl protagonist and her father, the film creates a sense of crisis and conflict. As the girl invests her feelings in her surroundings and describes events connected to her father, we are drawn into a world of pain and pathos.
Description Source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
