A 14-year-old girl attracts the attention of and then proceeds to seduce an aging playboy.

While on a camping vacation with her family, 14-year-old Lili sets out to lose her virginity. She pursues for her first lover Maurice, a 40-year-old computer salesman, but "at the moment of truth," she's assailed by lingering doubts. Alternately aggressive and resistant, Lili confuses herself and frustrates Maurice as she tries to make up her mind.

Screened at the Cannes Film Festival (marketplace), and at the 1988 New York Film Festival.

Additional cast: Berta Dominguez D. (Anne-Marie), Diane Bellego (Georgia), Adrienne Bonnet (Mother), Stéphane Moquet (Gi-Pe), Cecile Henry (Laeticia), Michel Scotto Di Carlo (Stéphane), Anny Chasson (Mme. Weber), Jean-Claude Binoche (M. Weber), Christian Lafitte (Driver), Christian Andia (Commissionaire, Opium), and Alberto Maccione (1st Para).

Additional crew: Anny Chasson (Unit production manager), Olivier Jacquot (Assistant director), Marie-Noëlle Claude (Assistant director), and Laurence Levy (Production assistant).

Filmed in Fujicolor. Titles by Eurocitel.

DVD Features:

Region 1 Encoding

Keep Case

Special Features: Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Production Credits, Filmographies/Awards.

Delphine Zentout: French Actress
Oliver Parniere: 
Jean-Pierre Léaud: French Actor ("Antoine Doinel")

Catherine Breillat: French Director/Screenwriter

"...36 FILETTE rings so true that to watch it is like eavesdropping on life....So fresh and incisive, so poignant yet funny, that its coming-of-age story unfolds as if it were the first of its kind..."