Product Details

• Actors: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Berta Domínguez D.
• Directors: Catherine Breillat
• Writers: Catherine Breillat, Roger Salloch
• Producers: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Pierre Sayag, Valérie Seydoux
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1572525835
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,591 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "36 Fillette" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

While on vacation with her family, fourteen year old Lili vows to lose her virginity. She attracts the attention of a good looking, middle-aged playboy and with the skill of an adult and the naivete of a child, she seduces him. Her involvement with this older man and a chance encounter with a musician further her journey toward sexual awakening.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good film, terrible transfer, September 2, 2002

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Randy Buck (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 36 Fillette (DVD)

Fox Lorber seems determined to make viewing their DVD transfers hard work. Their murky, dim DVDs are particularly frustrating, since many of their titles are truly wonderful foreign films. This picture, 36 FILLETTE, is touted as a "French LOLITA," but in many ways, is more reminiscent of [movie title] The young heroine has a grating perverse streak (only blind-and-deaf lust can explain why her older suitor doesn't bind and gag her mid-tirade), but she's nonetheless touching and real; all her anger and venom seem mere cover for a palpable sense of longing. Director Briellat, as usual, rushes into areas of female sexuality where angels fear to tread, here with moving results. The heroine's sly smile in the film's final frame's earned, and you're glad for her. Persevere through this lousy transfer; the picture's worth it.

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful DVD, January 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: 36 Fillette (DVD)

The film may be worth seeing, but this DVD is of the LOWEST imaginable quality and I strongly recommend you avoid buying it. It is clearly copied from a VHS tape: the subtitles are blurry and cannot be removed from the screen, and the video quality is even worse than a good VHS tape in that the image is excessively grainy and has scratches and dust throughout. Finally, and even more troubling, it is a FULLSCREEN transfer, not a widescreen transfer. I notice that IMDb claims the DVD is 1.66 aspect ratio, but my DVD (purchased Jan 2002) is definitely not.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Transcends the American brat style, July 7, 2000

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Dennis Littrell (SoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 36 Fillette [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a love story off the beaten track clearly in the tradition of Louis Malle and Francois Truffaut, told without prudishness or gratuitous violence.

The title refers to a children's dress size that the 14-year-old lead, Lili, played with snap by Delphine Zentout, is bursting out of. Billed as a "French Lolita," Zentout is not all that fetching at first glance. She's a chubbette with light skin and thick black hair and not exactly pretty. But she has intriguing eyes and a saucy way about her.

Lili is "discovering" her sexuality, but won't let herself be impregnated. The playboy, played with grace and economy by Etienne Chicot, falls in love with her in spite of himself and "tolerates" her reluctance while being partially satisfied in other ways, one of which we used to call a "cold f..." They are a believable match because sexually they are equal: she precocious, he experienced.

Catherine Beillet directs without sentimentality while guiding Zentout to an interpretation that transcends the American brat style and leads us to a thoughtful view of feminine sexuality.