Paris as the backdrop. A young woman, The Painter, falls under the spell of The Girl, a singer she meets in a Paris nightclub. Although The Girl had initially declared that their affair would last no longer than a single night, the two women do not stop there. Yet, a sense of danger looms…
Released in 2000, during the final years of Monique Wittig’s life, The Girl—for which she wrote the screenplay—is a striking cinematic creation and another example of the collaborative work between the writer and her partner, filmmaker Sande Zeig.