Fans of Andy Warhol's A Man Sleeping - his 8-hour documentary of a sleeping man - will love La fille seule, the eighth film by Benoit Jacquot. This sober movie is about 90 minutes in the life of an ordinary young girl named Valerie who has just found out that she is pregnant.

The camera sticks to her like glue as she meets her equally ordinary boyfriend, Remi, in a café to announce the news, goes off to start the first day of her new job as a waitress in a big hotel, then comes back to one hour later to inform her confused boyfriend of her decision to keep the baby. Alone.

Jacquot and his director of photography, Caroline Champetier, clearly like the enigmatic and photogenic 19-year-old actress Virginie Ledoyen (seen most recently in Claude Chabrol's La ceremonie). The film's strong-minded style and Virginie Ledoyen's acting capacities made for a fair critical success in France.

Tanis Kmetyk, FIPRESCI

Prod co: Cinea, La Sept Cinema with the participation of CNC and Canal Plus

Prod: Philippe Carcassonne

Dir: Benoit Jacquot

Scr: Benoit Jacquot, Jerome Beaujour

Ph: Caroline Champetier (AFC)

Ed: Pascale Chavance

Mus: Quatuor en La mineur - Opus 2, by Anton Dvorak

Sound: Michel Vionnet

Cast: Virginie Ledoyen, Benoit Magimel, Dominique Valadie

Running time: 90 mins

Int sales: Pyramide

Screenings: 27 June, 12.15, KCP-Kongressovy; 15.00, KCP-Koncertní; 28 June, 20.00, Lucerna

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