A Very Curious Girl (French: La Fiancée du pirate) is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan.[1] [2][3] Other English titles are Dirty Mary and Pirate's Fiancée.[4][5]

A Very Curious Girl
Directed by	Nelly Kaplan
Screenplay by	Nelly Kaplan Claude Makovski Jacques Serguine Michel Fabre
Produced by	Moshé Mizrahi
Starring	Bernadette Lafont Georges Géret
Cinematography	Jean Badal
Edited by	Nelly Kaplan
Music by	Georges Moustaki
Release date	3 December 1969 (1969-12-03) (France)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Plot

Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and commune of Tellier (an allusion to La Maison Tellier) with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also a sexual object for them, including her lesbian boss Irène. One day, when her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident and the locals do not even bother to bury her, Marie decides that things have to change and starts to charge people who have sex with her. Eventually, she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her.

Cast

• Bernadette Lafont as Marie
• Georges Géret as Gaston Duvalier, the village guard
• Michel Constantin as André, the projectionist
• Julien Guiomar as the Duke
• Jean Parédès as Monsieur Paul, the herbalist
• Francis Lax as Émile, the commune council member
• Claire Maurier as Irène, Marie's boss
• Marcel Pérès as Grandpa
• Pascal Mazzotti : Abbé Dard
• Jacques Masson : Hippolyte Duvalier, Gaston's son
• Henry Czarniak : Julien, Irène's farmhand
• Jacques Marin : Félix Lechat, the café owner
• Micha Bayard : Mélanie « La Goulette » Lechat, Félix's wife
• Fernand Berset : Jeanjean, the lingerie salesman
• Renée Duncan : Fifine (Delphine), Émile's wife
• Gilberte Géniat : Rose, the Duke's wife
• Claire Olivier : Marie's mother
• Louis Malle : Jésus, the Duke's Spanish farmhand
• Claude Makovski : Victor, the shop owner

Score

Georges Moustaki's soundtrack was released in the same year as the film.[4]

1. Histoire du Cirque (1:22)
2. Duo (2:21)
3. La Mort (2:08)
4. Pierre et Nicole (2:44)
5. Thème de Franca (1:37)
6. A Lisbonne (fado) (1:37)
7. Retour à L'hôtel (2:18)
8. Le Scandale / Suite (11:40)
9. Mona (1:31)
10. Anne et Claude au Musée (2:27)
11. Le Désespoir de Muriel (3:52)
12. La Déclaration d'Amour (2:25)
13. La Rupture (3.46)
14. Epilogue (2:25)
15. Une Petite Ile (1:30)
16. Anne et Claude (2:05)
17. Moi, Je Me Balance (2:46)
18. Marche de Marie (2:35)

Critical reception

The New York Times listed A Very Curious Girl as one of Bernadette Lafont's most notable films.[6] The website filmfanatic.org put this film into the category "Foreign Gem". [7] The Guardian mentions "A curious girl" in her obituary and states Lafont's performance had been "brilliant".[8]

References

External links

• A Very Curious Girl at IMDb
• A Very Curious Girl at the TCM Movie Database
• A Very Curious Girl at AllMovie