She Monkeys

Little White Lies“A deftly measured, deeply unsettling portrait of a power struggle...” Skillfully establishes an emerging undercurrent of danger, and even violence, in the girls’ relationship. What’s genuinely taboo breaking here is the idea of femininity as a weapon...

Guardian“Tremulous, pained study of awkward emotions...” It suffers a little from its resolute avoidance of titillation – a little more passion would not have gone amiss – but it's a worthwhile effort nonetheless...

Film4“Coming-of-age Western loaded with latent sex and violence...” Like all adolescents, the three girls are fighting a losing battle with their hormones to master their bodies and desires. Anyone who's ever been a teenage girl will come away thanking their lucky star that they aren't anymore...

Total Film “Proves rather sweeter than its synopsis...” “I want to be like I was before,” she says, plaintively, when sex rears its head – just one of many truthful, minor-key moments in a film that plays like Lasse Hallström’s My Life As A Dog meets Father Ted’s ‘My Lovely Horse’...

Empire“Disjointed but refreshingly subversive character drama...” entative, drunken kisses, a father tickling his daughter’s stomach, a girl destroying her horse figurine — that either feel disquieting or threatening, but fail to harry along this detached meditation on youthful longing...

Time Out“Deliciously subverts the coming-of-age formula... ” Life might not always be easy for teen girls in arthouse films, but it can get a bit samey: shyly discovering their sexuality when no one in the world understands them...