DVD, Digital Release: A Radiant Girl

Digital, DVD Release Date: June 20, 2023
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Film Movement


Paris, Summer 1942: Irene (Rebecca Marder) is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied

Rebecca Marder is A Radiant Girl

France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead performance by Marder “which more than delivers on the luminous promise of the English title” (Screen Daily).

A RADIANT GIRL shows us both the dangers of complacency in the face of fascism, as well as the moments of beauty that are possible even under the hardest of circumstances

Bonus Short Film: Fine directed by Maya Yadlin

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.