Tuesday, 14 January 2020

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015 Marielle Heller & co-scr)

23 year old Bel Powley does a good job of playing 15 year old girl in 1976 San Francisco (not that much is made of that location), separated from her father, entering into a relationship with her mum's boyfriend Alexander Skarsgard (mum played by Kristen Wiig). Feels long (though isn't), but enlivened by drawings and animations from Sara Gunnarsdottir.

Brandon Trost shot it in a muted pallette.

Written by Phoebe Gloekner (author of the source graphic novel) and Heller. Some laughs, quite unflinching, feels real.

There's sure a lot of coke being consumed there. The irony is that the long-haired fellow artist is probably much more suitable for her as a boyfriend than the other chaps.

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