The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015 "Sex, drugs, and recordings of it all."
6.8| 1h43m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 August 2015 Released
Producted By: Cold Iron Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://sonyclassics.com/thediaryofateenagegirl
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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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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
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.
merelyaninnuendo The Diary Of A Teenage GirlTrying to find out its originality and reason beings by seeking, experimenting or even smelling the unknown is one of the finest detailed context ever to be mentioned on screen. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is beautifully written and adapted but more importantly it's execution is something that sweeps away the attention. Marielle Heller is surprisingly amazing on her directorial debut, and works with conviction in each and every frame of it. Bel Powley is quite convincing on her teenage depiction and is supported with great performances by Alexander Skarsgård and Kirsten Wiig. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is short (just around 100 minutes), to-the-point, perfectly edited and supervised with enormous amount of care and passion towards the art.
Michael O'Keefe Writer-director Marielle Heller gives us an almost voyeuristic look at a teen looking for self discovery. Minnie (Bel Powley) has no real self assurances, but finds her sexuality beginning to be a portal for her deeper discovery. She finds something in viewing herself in the mirror, but what would it feel like to have a lover's touch? Her artwork allows her to reach out to a female comic-creator (Susannah Schulman), and she records thoughts in her diary. She is desperate to share her experiences with someone in order to actually understand herself. Her friend, Kimmie (Madeline Waters), shares the adventure into sexuality. To boost her own sexual experience, Minne enters an affair with her mother's 35 yr-old boyfriend (Alexander Kkarsgard). Minnie is impulsive and craves sex; she has much to provide to pages of her diary.This movie earns its R rating with strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and raw language. I found it worth watching more than once. A mood elevating soundtrack features: Mott The Hoople, T. Rex and the Dwight Twilley Band.Also in the cast: Kristen Wiig, Miranda Bailey, Abby Wait, John Parsons and Carson D. Mell.
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.