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The Girl

Name: The Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: 2023-08-17

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🍅84%

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84%

Tomatometer

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75%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

Dirandra is a young man raised as a girl by his mother. This led to isolation and gossip, even from his father. He faced the choice of conforming to societal norms or embracing his mother's teachings. After his mother's death, he quietly held onto the desire to be like her while living with his father.

Trailers

Wanodya (The Girl) Official Trailer 2023

Details

DirectorGracia

ReleasedAug 17, 2023

StatusReleased

Original languageIndonesian

Budget

$350

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guide17+ID

Studio

Kanigara Production

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

4 fresh · 3 rotten

Critics consensus

“Girl uses one aspiring dancer's story as the framework for a poignant drama that approaches its difficult themes with fittingly alluring grace.”

84% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Hannah McGill

RTSight & SoundApr 3, 2019

This film makes a gentle point of the fact that transitioning isn't trouble-free even if most of the people around you are broadly sympathetic to the undertaking.

Nick Davis

RTFilm Comment MagazineMar 21, 2019

Unfortunately, despite strenuous pretenses of compassion, Girl's escalating obsessions reprise long histories of cruel, transphobic storytelling.

K. Austin Collins

RTVanity FairMar 19, 2019

A curiously unjust, myopic, even dangerous movie.

Carla Monfort

RTEspinofNov 21, 2022

Girl is a powerful intimate portrait that gives us a window into the psychology of its protagonist. And while it reflects her most dramatic reality, it does so with restraint and with a sensational use of the camera. [Full review in Spanish]