The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015 "Some things are best kept secret."
6.8| 1h42m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 August 2015 Released
Producted By: Cold Iron Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

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Neil Welch In 1970s San Francisco, Minnie is the 15 year old daughter of a loser mother, a would-be cartoonist, and beginning to explore her sexuality, which she chooses to do with her mother's equally loser boyfriend (and others).Based on a graphic novel, this film is well played by Kristen Wiig as the mother, and with a particularly courageous performance (by which, as usual, I mean featuring a lot of nudity and simulated sex) from English Bel Powley. It's not just courageous, it's a good performance.The problem, for me, was that the film didn't actually have much to say. OK, let's be controversial by making her 15 (Powley was 22 when making the film, but convinces as a sexually precocious 15-year old), but then they did nothing with that. It could have explored the issue of the age of consent: it didn't. Instead, the main plot dynamic was when and how drug-addled Mom would find out, and that wasn't really enough to sustain the movie.I quite liked the performances and the stylish direction, but I wanted more meat on the bones.
Jeneral28 You are definitely watching 102 minutes of child abuse. In many scenes it's portrayed graphically, but from beginning to end child abuse makes up the content of the story. To Bel Powley: Why no teenage girls need to see a movie where there's underage sex and sexual assault? Where they see you small ugly good for nothing breasts and bum and almost shots of your vulva? What will that to to the British female teenage group? Do you know? It will encourage them to do what you and your character did on screen. And then the government will have to try to stop it as well as society.We do not need film to educate us on how to love yourself, especially not after having sexual activity which is punishable by crime. We do not need a film to see your small, not sexy body or you to proclaim it is a taboo subject (there's so many ways to understand puberty and sex nowadays). We we do not need to say hey! See this film by bluffing your way or saying the film agencies rate it too high. It is just another "Fifty Shades of rape" film.
bjarias There are numerous wonderful performances in this brilliant little film. But two of them are great, and another is just amazing (star-making.. few outside of England had heard her name before, but that has all ended with this career making role). From start to finish this film grabs you, and doesn't let go for a minute. It well deserves all the accolades it's receiving, and is so timeless, it will keep on being discovered by viewers for a very long time to come. It's impressive on all levels.. writing, casting, acting, filming, directing, production values.. there are no noticeable weak points. It's video library category.. to be enjoyed again as time passes. Don't think of missing it.
arseniy Such a painfully typical and yet utterly unique story - all at the exact same time. And despite this being the case for all our stories - said juxtaposition remains an ever-difficult one to capture. Success in so doing, most always constituting the mark of a great film. Another ever-illusive and critical such juxtaposition largely pulled off here - is to help empower on the one hand, and yet to do so honestly on the other. Instead of spouting proud PC (black/elderly/latin/native/girl/etc.)- power escapism propaganda - peddled by so many lesser films. Abandoning honesty/objectivity is just so rarely worth the grave corresponding price. While honest empowerment, most always transcends simple-minded, biological-marker-based team-think. And so, ultimately, this is one of those comparatively few films - which makes me genuinely happy it exists. Minor warts and all.