Girl
Directed by Lukas Dhont
Written by Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens
Starring Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart
Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes
MPAA rating: not rated
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
Imagine going through puberty, that out of control hellscape when body and mind battle it out internally and externally - and you have to endure changes, dear Lort, so many changes! For many of you reading, it’s not hard to imagine at all - you’ve already lived through it. But imagine going through puberty with the knowledge that you were not in the body you should be, that in addition to the transformations your body chose to undertake without your express permission, you wanted to make some changes of your own. Not wanted - demanded, in order to feel fully yourself. For cisgender folk, I think it’s extremely difficult to understand what this might look and feel like. But let’s take a few moments and try.
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