The Girl Has Flown

Set in Trieste, The Girl Has Flown is the fifth feature from Wilma Labate, written in collaboration with writer-director siblings Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo. The film follows sixteen-year-old Nadia (Alma Noce) and the aftermath of a traumatising encounter with Brando (Luka Zunic). While other recent works by women filmmakers such as Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge or Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman have approached similar subject matter through heightened stylisation, Labate’s approach echoes Robert Bresson’s Mouchette in its quietly devastating restraint. Please note that his film contains a scene of sexual violence.