FR-P014-1989

La petite voleuse / The Little Thief

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Janine Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a little pretty, a little young.... and a little thief. Stealing from her classmates at school, shoplifting from local lingerie stores, she's a girl desperate to become a woman, and stealing into adulthood is the only way she knows how. Janine becomes a maid for a wealthy couple and assumes her adult role with relish, losing her virginity, and seducing an older, married man who tries to encourage Janine to mend her ways. Instead she chooses to devote herself to Raoul, a wayward young man, and together they rob her employers and run off together. But their stolen moments of freedom are to be short-lived. Separated from Raoul, Janine is arrested and sent to a reform school. Discovering she is pregnant with Raoul's child, Janine escapes to visit a backroom abortionist -- but a change of heart makes her decide to keep the babyand rob the abortionist instead. With the proceeds of this last illicit venture, Janine sets off to face the future, alone but with a little courage and a lot of faith that 'the little thief' has finally come of age. Director: François Truffaut. Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de la Brosse, Didier Bezace, Clotilde de Bayser, Raoul Billerey . Color. Country: France. Subtitled.