The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Marielle Heller
Aug 04, 2015
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Minnie (Bel Powley) is a horndog teenager living with her little sister and single mom (Kristen Wiig) in 1976 San Francisco. With a tape deck and microphone, she chronicles her coming of age: her creative blossoming as a young cartoonist, discovery of drugs, and her sexual awakening at the hands of her mother’s skeevy 34-year-old boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård).
Chances are many in the audience will squirm through the first act of Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Those who can hold it together through the graphic onslaught of poor decision-making—particularly the predatory relationship that is the film’s core, and mama Wiig’s bald-faced drug abuse—will no doubt be pulled in by the film’s strange blend of comic animation and heightened emotion. Wiig and Skarsgård easily give career-best dramatic turns, but it’s Powley—with a performance that is bold and unquestionably edgy—who is the film’s breakout star.
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Author rating: 7.5/10
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