Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig, Abby Wait, Miranda Bailey, Carson D. Mell, John Parsons, Madeleine Waters, Austin Lyon, Quinn Nagle | Written and Directed by Marielle Heller
Adapted from American comic artist/novelist Phoebe Gloeckner’s edgy ‘graphic’ graphic novel of the same name, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is a dark, often comedic, reminder that early seventies San Francisco’s free love and drugs post-hippy burnout was a confused time for America’s infantilised alt. culture adults and the youth they spawned. When viewed through the optimistic, naïve eyes of 15 year old Minnie (British actor Bel Powley) as she fast tracks herself into adulthood, it soon becomes clear that screenwriter/director Marielle Heller’s vision is to give you a movie that’s honest and uncompromising. Be warned dreamers this is no cosy fairy tale about sexual and narcotic awakenings. It’s full of unpleasant people and...
Adapted from American comic artist/novelist Phoebe Gloeckner’s edgy ‘graphic’ graphic novel of the same name, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is a dark, often comedic, reminder that early seventies San Francisco’s free love and drugs post-hippy burnout was a confused time for America’s infantilised alt. culture adults and the youth they spawned. When viewed through the optimistic, naïve eyes of 15 year old Minnie (British actor Bel Powley) as she fast tracks herself into adulthood, it soon becomes clear that screenwriter/director Marielle Heller’s vision is to give you a movie that’s honest and uncompromising. Be warned dreamers this is no cosy fairy tale about sexual and narcotic awakenings. It’s full of unpleasant people and...
- 1/5/2016
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
“I had sex today! Holy s**t!” is the opening line of Diary Of A Teenage Girl, a fresh take on the teen rite of passage from director Marielle Heller, adapting an illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. 15-year old Minnie (Bel Powley), clad in her ‘Mickey Rat’ T-shirt, makes the shocking declaration in voice-over as she heads home to the apartment where she resides with her divorced mother Charlotte (Kristen Wiig) and younger sister Gretel (Abby Wait) in hippy-infested San Francisco. The year is 1976 and Minnie’s ‘diary’ is actually a cassette tape recorder into which she confesses daily details about her affair with mom’s slacker boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard). Just how Minnie happened to have her first sexual experience with the much older man is shown in flashback. Mom had suggested Monroe take Minnie to the neighborhood bar one night instead of her. What could go wrong? As...
- 8/21/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Written and directed by Marielle Heller
USA, 2015
Moviegoers have had more than their fare share of cinematic bildungsromans to choose from in recent years. Even for those who found last year’s Boyhood to be too focused on the male experience of growing up, Blue is the Warmest Color, released the previous year, provided a more than suitable alternative. Outside of the realist lens, Pixar’s Inside Out gave a powerful and humorous glimpse inside the mind of an eleven-year girl as she coped with a move and struggled with the anxieties of adolescence. But despite this plethora of films on more or less the same subject, none of them them have quite attacked it in the same manner as The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the debut of writer/director Marielle Heller (adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner...
Written and directed by Marielle Heller
USA, 2015
Moviegoers have had more than their fare share of cinematic bildungsromans to choose from in recent years. Even for those who found last year’s Boyhood to be too focused on the male experience of growing up, Blue is the Warmest Color, released the previous year, provided a more than suitable alternative. Outside of the realist lens, Pixar’s Inside Out gave a powerful and humorous glimpse inside the mind of an eleven-year girl as she coped with a move and struggled with the anxieties of adolescence. But despite this plethora of films on more or less the same subject, none of them them have quite attacked it in the same manner as The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the debut of writer/director Marielle Heller (adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner...
- 8/20/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – Real boldness, real truth, is hard to fine in teenage stories. The confusing and hormonal time is often trivialized, or used as a prop for unlikely situations. “Diary of a Teenage Girl” pulls no such punches, in a tale of a 15 year old girl having her first love affair – with a 35 year old man.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The film is based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, and was adapted and directed by Marielle Heller. The woman-centric production is willing to go “all the way” with the depiction of the affair, which sets it apart from American attitudes in cinema towards sex. The title actress, Bel Powley, is able to handle all the feelings of the arrows shot toward her character, and communicates a combination of vulnerability and strength that makes her a real survivor. The ending was not in concert with the rest of the film – except for the...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The film is based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, and was adapted and directed by Marielle Heller. The woman-centric production is willing to go “all the way” with the depiction of the affair, which sets it apart from American attitudes in cinema towards sex. The title actress, Bel Powley, is able to handle all the feelings of the arrows shot toward her character, and communicates a combination of vulnerability and strength that makes her a real survivor. The ending was not in concert with the rest of the film – except for the...
- 8/14/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
After finding success at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Marielle Heller’s The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is hoping it can break out into the wider world. The first trailer has arrived online. The film stars Bel Powley – largely unknown across the pond, but a veteran of UK TV – as Minnie Goetz, a teenager yearning for life experience and love in particular in 1970s San Francisco. She finds the latter – or at least, a sexual relationship – with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). But while the experience pushes her to a sexual and artistic awakening, not everything is perfect in her life.Heller adapted the script from Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel, and the film does include a lot of imagery and flights of fantasy. Hopefully it’ll find a decent audience over here as well as in the States. With Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva,...
- 5/26/2015
- EmpireOnline
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