Girls' School

The brilliantly narrated portrait of a generation of women. Personal, reflective and hopeful.
Twelve girls. They all write in Pascale Hugues' poetry album in 1968. The adjectives with which they write their poems are small, sweet, modest. Never proud, brave, ambitious. These qualities are only for men. 50 years later, Pascale Hugues goes in search of these girls, tells of their lives as women. And portrays a generation: too young for the revolution of 1968, they take advantage of the pill, abortion, divorce by mutual consent, the right to go to the office in pants and receive a salary without asking their husband's permission - all these achievements that generations before them fought for. Each of them has tried to escape the image of women that is so clearly reflected in the little poetry album. But all of them feel that the invisible power of these role attributions is still at work today. Pascale Hugues reflects with great stylistic elegance how the characteristics inscribed on them accompany women throughout their lives.