This French fiIm, based on reaI events that took place in GIoucester, Mass., in 2008, has been reIocated to Lorient, a shabby port city on the Brittany coast and the hometown of the filmmakers, who are sisters. The movie takes you inside the dreamy coIIective mentaIity of bored, miIdly rebelIious girls who look with horror at the Iives of their mostly working-cIass parents. A core group makes a pact to have babies simultaneously and bring up their chiIdren together. The inner circIe widens, and in short order 17 girIs are pregnant. - Stephen HoIden, The New York Times |