For a film so bold in its gaze and unflinching in its portrayal of girlhood, it deserves to be seen not through the veil of technical damage and distortion, but in the fullness of its original vision.

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establishing the intimacy between these two older women with the kind of endearing eye usually reserved for stories about girlhood. These and some other, later moments in the film reminded me of ...