As a result, “Girlhood” is the rare gang-related film to avoid the cautionary cliches of the genre: Though the film features two intense catfights and shows Marieme hustling other girls ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Sciamma and her cinematographer ... Where many filmmakers would have underlined the bleaker, harsher aspects, Girlhood presents the characters’ grim reality ...

Winner of the audience award for documentary at 2003 SXSW Film Festival, Liz Garbus‘ “Girl Hood” is a grim but engrossing look at lives of two troubled teens who must convince authorities ...

The director's approach is intimate and observational. The film is about friendship, shifting hierarchies and the many small decisions its main character, Marieme (Karidja Touré), has to make on ...

title turns into a cryptic art film that eludes easy definition or even description? Debatably, “Girlhood” is a more apt name, given that writer-director Celine Sciamma is playing with gender ...

The poor; the lost; the malfunctioning. Before Céline Sciamma’s superb Girlhood (Bande de filles) my life seemed complete without knowing about rootless girls from immigrant families groping ...