A Single Girl her a César Award nomination. A Single Girl A Single Girl () is a 1995 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot. It follows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valérie (played by Virginie Ledoyen) who begins a new job at a four star hotel the same day she reveals to her boyfriend that she is pregnant. The 90 minute film is shot in real time, with a very mobile camera style, recalling the French New Wave. This was the breakthrough role for the 19-year-old Ledoyen (who later became known in America for the 2000
Sex and the Single Girl to seek professional advancement...to use gender, and to varying degrees, sexuality for their own gain." Berebitsky also contrasts "Sex and the Single Girl" with "The Executive Secretary", a guidebook published in 1959 by Marilyn Burke, secretary to Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie, that cautions against demonstrations of female sexuality in the workforce. Scanlon suggests that "Sex and the City" is "the most direct descendent of the sexual politics Helen Gurley Brown introduced in "Sex and the Single Girl"" and Jane Gerhard argues that ""Sex and the City" pays direct homage" to "Sex and the Single Girl", as both present the