In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.
Acting
Gainsbourg's restless, magnetic teenage chaos
Cinematography
Bleak postwar France that still looks gorgeous
Direction
Miller's patient, unsentimental character study
Director
Claude Miller
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Janine Castang
Didier Bezace
Michel Davenne
Simon de La Brosse
Raoul
Clotilde de Bayser
Séverine Longuet
Raoul Billerey
L'oncle André Rouleau
Chantal Banlier
La tante Léa Rouleau
Nathalie Cardone
Mauricette
Renée Faure
La Mére Busato
Catherine Arditi
la directrice de l'école
Pierre Maguelon
M. Fauvel
Marion Grimault
Kebadian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Charlotte Gainsbourg was 17 during filming; this was her breakthrough after being discovered at 12 in Paroles et Musique.
Miller developed this from an abandoned Truffaut project, which explains the New Wave DNA in its treatment of delinquent youth.
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