Depending on your definition of “vulgar,” “My Year of Dicks” could be the first film with that type of word in its title to be nominated for an Oscar. (Up for debate: “Sausage Party” and “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.”) It’s a badge of honor, but Sara Gunnarsdóttir, the Icelandic filmmaker who directed the animated short about a teenage girl’s quest to lose her virginity in 1990, doesn’t understand why it’s such a big deal.
“This is such a weird word for me,” Gunnarsdóttir said during a recent interview with TheWrap. “I have the same feelings about the word ‘s—‘ because I’m like, it’s poop. We can say ‘poop.’ Why can’t we say ‘s—‘? ‘Dicks’ — like, why is this a bad word? There’s Dick’s Sporting Goods. I don’t get it.”
At the mention of the sports equipment company, Pamela Ribon, who adapted...
“This is such a weird word for me,” Gunnarsdóttir said during a recent interview with TheWrap. “I have the same feelings about the word ‘s—‘ because I’m like, it’s poop. We can say ‘poop.’ Why can’t we say ‘s—‘? ‘Dicks’ — like, why is this a bad word? There’s Dick’s Sporting Goods. I don’t get it.”
At the mention of the sports equipment company, Pamela Ribon, who adapted...
- 2/24/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
Marielle Heller had tried everything. She was nearly a year into her campaign to adapt The Diary of a Teenage Girl, cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, into a play, and she was no closer to her goal. At the time, around 2007, Heller had zero writing or directing credits to her name. But she was convinced that Gloeckner’s story, about a 15-year-old testing the limits of her sexual desires in 1970s San Francisco, was one that she wanted to tell. So she busted out the nuclear option.
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- 2/22/2021
- by Jenna Scherer
- Rollingstone.com
Three films into her feature career, Marielle Heller has carved out a particular niche: movies about real people and their messy lives. From last year’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” to her latest effort — the feel-good “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” — the filmmaker excels at avoiding the trappings of staid old biographical dramas. And yet, her work always has a gentle emotional pull. “Beautiful Day,” which features Tom Hanks as beloved television host Fred Rogers, tells a story about kindness and being comfortable with yourself that doesn’t easily slot into the biopic sub-genre. It’s also not really a biopic about Fred Rogers, no matter how many stories characterized that way early on.
“I don’t know why that ever got started as a thing,” Heller said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “There’s nothing about it that is a biopic.”
It’s a familiar semantic battle for Heller,...
“I don’t know why that ever got started as a thing,” Heller said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “There’s nothing about it that is a biopic.”
It’s a familiar semantic battle for Heller,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Tom Hanks is wonderful as Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Too bad the movie isn’t about him.
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The first thing you need to know is that Tom Hanks does an eerily accurate impersonation of legendary children’s TV host Fred Rogers in Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Clad in the iconic red sweater, hair gray and swept back, demeanor calm and composed, even in the face of a rude question or two, Hanks does a remarkable job of capturing at least the public face of the performer, educator, and minister: a man who taught love and empathy to millions of young minds and hearts every afternoon for decades via public broadcasting.
The second thing you need to know about the film itself is that Mr. Rogers is not the center of the story, but rather a supporting player.
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The first thing you need to know is that Tom Hanks does an eerily accurate impersonation of legendary children’s TV host Fred Rogers in Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Clad in the iconic red sweater, hair gray and swept back, demeanor calm and composed, even in the face of a rude question or two, Hanks does a remarkable job of capturing at least the public face of the performer, educator, and minister: a man who taught love and empathy to millions of young minds and hearts every afternoon for decades via public broadcasting.
The second thing you need to know about the film itself is that Mr. Rogers is not the center of the story, but rather a supporting player.
- 11/15/2019
- Den of Geek
For the film industry, fall movie season begins in the summer. That’s when the major fall festivals begin to announce their slates, and the Toronto International Film Festival gets the conversation going. While the Venice Film Festival has already announced a handful of higher-profile titles including Damien Chazelle’s Ryan Gosling-starring Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Mexican saga “Roma,” and the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga musical drama “A Star is Born,” Tiff’s Galas and Special Presentations section has all those titles and a lot more.
Tiff artistic director and co-head of the festival Cameron Bailey threw down the gauntlet: “I don’t think you’re not going to see a better lineup at any festival this fall,” he said.
Bailey had plenty of promising endorsements for some of the bigger awards-season movies in Tiff’s current announcement, including “Roma,” which he called...
Tiff artistic director and co-head of the festival Cameron Bailey threw down the gauntlet: “I don’t think you’re not going to see a better lineup at any festival this fall,” he said.
Bailey had plenty of promising endorsements for some of the bigger awards-season movies in Tiff’s current announcement, including “Roma,” which he called...
- 7/24/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It’s the honesty of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” that really makes the Saoirse Ronan-starring coming-of-age movie sing. Yes, it’s very funny and filled with enough genuinely great performances that it’s actually debatable which supporting star turns in the best work (it’s Laurie Metcalf, or maybe Beanie Feldstein, or possibly Tracy Letts), but what makes Gerwig’s movie such a gem is the honesty that infuses every part and every scene. Ronan’s Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson is a work-in-progress, but she’s also kind of a jerk, and Gerwig never shies away from showing the angstier, angrier side of growing up.
So often, high school-set features tend to lean into the more fun side of those four years, building up to the big dance or the big test or the big graduation, and while Lady Bird is consumed with getting to the next step,...
So often, high school-set features tend to lean into the more fun side of those four years, building up to the big dance or the big test or the big graduation, and while Lady Bird is consumed with getting to the next step,...
- 12/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Risky and risqué, indie films have always been a home for bold, honest, and controversial visions of teens’ sexuality. Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” opening this week after bowing at Sundance in January, is another notch in the belt of the sub-genre, a sensitive and often shocking look inside the coming-of-age of a young Brooklyn teen.
Like the best of these films, it’s not all about hormones; it builds on questions about identity and desire. But that’s there too, in sensitively crafted scenes that don’t skimp on reality. Punctuated by some bad choices and an unnerving final act, “Beach Rats” embraces the full spectrum of teen sexuality, even when it’s not exactly alluring.
Read More:Why ‘Beach Rats’ Breakout Harris Dickinson Isn’t Afraid Of Risqué Roles (Or Sex Scenes) — Sundance Springboard
Here are eight indie films that engage with the subject matter in appropriately intimate ways.
Like the best of these films, it’s not all about hormones; it builds on questions about identity and desire. But that’s there too, in sensitively crafted scenes that don’t skimp on reality. Punctuated by some bad choices and an unnerving final act, “Beach Rats” embraces the full spectrum of teen sexuality, even when it’s not exactly alluring.
Read More:Why ‘Beach Rats’ Breakout Harris Dickinson Isn’t Afraid Of Risqué Roles (Or Sex Scenes) — Sundance Springboard
Here are eight indie films that engage with the subject matter in appropriately intimate ways.
- 8/22/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Who decides what is pornography? Who gets to stop people from seeing it? And why do they bother?
A Utah state senator got a bill passed declaring pornography a public health crisis. It’s been a while since I’ve been in Utah, but I was in New York City a couple days ago and I figure if porn is a “public health crisis” in Utah, there would be some sign of that in the Big Apple. I saw no signs of any public health crisis whatsoever. I asked my fellow ComicMix columnist Mindy Newell if she’s seen any signs of a porn-related health pandemic; by day Mindy’s an operating room nurse in the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area. She acknowledged that pornography might be a threat to the health of certain religions that maintain broad governmental power, but it’s not a physical health threat like,...
A Utah state senator got a bill passed declaring pornography a public health crisis. It’s been a while since I’ve been in Utah, but I was in New York City a couple days ago and I figure if porn is a “public health crisis” in Utah, there would be some sign of that in the Big Apple. I saw no signs of any public health crisis whatsoever. I asked my fellow ComicMix columnist Mindy Newell if she’s seen any signs of a porn-related health pandemic; by day Mindy’s an operating room nurse in the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area. She acknowledged that pornography might be a threat to the health of certain religions that maintain broad governmental power, but it’s not a physical health threat like,...
- 5/25/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
[Editor's Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of Indie Film Month. Today's pick, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," is available now On Demand. Need help finding a movie to watch? Let TWC find the best fit for your mood here.] Read More: Sex and the Revolutionary Female Perspective in Marielle Heller's 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' Marielle Heller's Sundance hit "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is not your average coming of age story. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel 2002 "The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures," the film bravely and brazenly turns its taboo subject matter — the sexual awakening of a teenage girl — into a funny, smart and honest story that entertains as much as it educates. Heller's debut feature stars Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze, a precocious 15-year-old muddling her way through the swinging scene...
- 2/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Oscars aren't the only awards being handed out in February. Next month, the Indie Spirit Awards will honor the best in independent cinema from the past year, and "The Diary Of A Teenage Girl" will contend in three major categories: Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Female Lead. Today we have a prize pack featuring the film on Blu-ray, plus the book by Phoebe Gloeckner it's based on, for some lucky readers. Read More: Review: 'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl' Starring Bel Powley And Kristen Wiig Directed by Marielle Heller, and starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsgard, the story is set in 1976 San Francisco where Minnie Goetze is growing up at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. Like most teenage girls, Minnie longs for love, acceptance, and a sense of purpose in the world. She...
- 1/21/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
When I reviewed The Diary Of A Teenage Girl here at We Are Movie Geeks, I wrote that it was “…..an outstanding rebuke to all this summer’s recycled, effects-heavy disappointments but, despite its title, it’s not a fun movie for teens like The Duff or Fault In Our Stars. The sex scenes are graphic and frequent, the dialog raw and uncomfortable, and for parents of teen girls, the film, though one of the year’s best, may be more than a little scary.” and gave it 5 of 5 stars. Read all of my review Here
Now Sony Pictures Classics’ sharp, funny and provocative coming-of-age tale, arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital HD January 19 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critics’ darling and film festival favorite marks breakout debuts for writer/director Marielle Heller, winning the Vanguard Award from the Sundance Institute, and phenomenal break-out actress Bel Powley.
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl...
Now Sony Pictures Classics’ sharp, funny and provocative coming-of-age tale, arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital HD January 19 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critics’ darling and film festival favorite marks breakout debuts for writer/director Marielle Heller, winning the Vanguard Award from the Sundance Institute, and phenomenal break-out actress Bel Powley.
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl...
- 1/19/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There’s a certain joy to be felt when discovering a new voice in film. Taking the risk to sit down in and watch a director’s first feature, witnessing how they grapple and contend with cinema. Each year, there are great debuts, to be sure, but in 2015, it seemed to me to be unusually strong for first-time filmmakers (not a few films listed here are on my overall best of the year list as well).
A few notes regarding the eligibility: the majority of these films had a USA theatrical release date in 2015, but in the spirit of including more foreign films – some of which have yet to find a distributor in North America – I have also included several films which only had festival release dates in 2015, or only had theatrical releases in their country of origin. The question of which films are eligible seems to be an arbitrary line,...
A few notes regarding the eligibility: the majority of these films had a USA theatrical release date in 2015, but in the spirit of including more foreign films – some of which have yet to find a distributor in North America – I have also included several films which only had festival release dates in 2015, or only had theatrical releases in their country of origin. The question of which films are eligible seems to be an arbitrary line,...
- 1/18/2016
- by Josh Hamm
- SoundOnSight
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Phoebe Gloeckner's special comic strip, talking about how she felt seeing her graphic novel adapted for the screen.
The terrific The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is on DVD in the UK now, and to salute its release, graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner has put together this very special piece of artwork.
It's a comic strip that puts across how Phoebe felt about having a film made out of her teenage experiences. Her original graphical novel, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl: An Account In Words And Pictures was the source for the film itself.
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The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, meanwhile, is on DVD now.
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Phoebe Gloeckner's special comic strip, talking about how she felt seeing her graphic novel adapted for the screen.
The terrific The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is on DVD in the UK now, and to salute its release, graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner has put together this very special piece of artwork.
It's a comic strip that puts across how Phoebe felt about having a film made out of her teenage experiences. Her original graphical novel, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl: An Account In Words And Pictures was the source for the film itself.
To load up the artwork, just click on the gallery widget. There are six panels in all.
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, meanwhile, is on DVD now.
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- 1/12/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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
While we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that might bring to light some emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we’re highlighting the handful of 2015 debuts that most impressed us.
This shouldn’t discount the breakthrough directors behind such films as Buzzard; Tangerine; It Follows; Heaven Knows What; Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter; Man From Reno; and Spring, to name some we liked, but considering that they all have at least two features under their belts, we’re strictly focusing on first-timers here. Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and distributions, from those that barely received a theatrical release to wide bows.
This shouldn’t discount the breakthrough directors behind such films as Buzzard; Tangerine; It Follows; Heaven Knows What; Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter; Man From Reno; and Spring, to name some we liked, but considering that they all have at least two features under their belts, we’re strictly focusing on first-timers here. Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and distributions, from those that barely received a theatrical release to wide bows.
- 12/15/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
It’s unfortunately rather likely that you’ve missed The Diary of a Teenage Girl to this point, but your chance is coming on January 19th when the film comes home. Not only a critical favorite, and one of the most talked about films at Sundance, the film is based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s much-praised novel that explores […]
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- 12/1/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- FilmReview.com
When was the last time you saw a cinematic sex scene that felt anything like real life? Movies can’t seem to help turning sex into a glossy fantasy, or else a joke – among recent releases, you can give Trainwreck some credit for realism in depicting intercourse, but never without a laugh to follow. So it’s particularly refreshing, to some degree even shocking, to see sex depicted with the kind of frankness and wisdom on display in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The film isn’t visually overindulgent; there is nudity and there are sex scenes, but the film is more concerned with the larger emotional context of the carnal activity. It’s about what the concerned parties want out of the sex itself, what they want out of each other, and how they do or don’t get it. That’s about as real as it gets.
- 8/28/2015
- by Patrick Dunn
- CinemaNerdz
“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
Phoebe Gloeckner, ‘The Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ Author, On Feature Film Starring Alexander Skarsgard
Phoebe Gloecker penned The Dairy of a Teenage Girl, a moving novel that’s been adapted for a film starring Alexander Skarsgard, Bel Powley and Kristen Wiig. Phoebe Gloeckner On ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ “They translated it very well. Marielle Heller translated it very well,” Gloeckner told uInterview, referring to the film’s stars and its writer-director. While […]
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- 8/20/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
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
Read More: Why 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Star Bel Powley Thinks Every Girl Should See Her Film "This is for all the girls when they have grown." Director Marielle Heller's debut feature film, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," premiered at Sundance this year, where it received an enthusiastic welcome from audiences. The film follows 15-year-old Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley), who loses her virginity when she enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend. The character of Minnie Goetze was first born in 2002 when author and artist Phoebe Gloeckner published the semi-autobiographical graphic novel, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures," which chronicles Minnie's sexual awakening in unsparing terms. "I am not unique at all," Gloeckner recently expressed in an interview. "Hundreds if not thousands of people have experienced this same thing, in some version of it...This isn't about me,...
- 8/10/2015
- by Sara Itkis
- Indiewire
How refreshing it is to see female sexuality on liberated display in "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," Marielle Heller's warmly made debut, based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. So why didn't people go and see it this weekend? "I'm a fucking woman," says the titular Minnie, an aspiring teenage artist played by resiliently spunky newcomer Bel Powley, "and this is my life." It's 1970s San Francisco, and she is entering into an affair with her mom's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård), the kind of hunky dope in a leather jacket who messes with your brain (and other body parts). The sex they have isn't icky, but believable and tender, and I love this movie's nonjudgmental embrace of sex and drugs and hedonistic behavior as learning experiences. The film, however, scored disappointingly at the arthouse box office this weekend, via Sony Pictures Classics, and may be too...
- 8/10/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Yes, Alexander Skarsgard showed up to this week's premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl looking fierce as hell in drag, but don't let his glittery gold gown and Farrah Fawcett–inspired wig distract you from the career-high work he's done here by playing it straight. In Teenage Girl, he's cast as mustachioed Monroe, who complicates his open relationship with the perpetually substance-addled Charlotte (Kristen Wiig) by secretly hooking up with her 15-year-old daughter Minnie (British newcomer Bel Powley). That's an awfully provocative love triangle — only somewhat excused by the fact that the movie takes place in the anything-goes climate of 1976 San Francisco — but in the hands of writer-director Marielle Heller, who adapted the project from Phoebe Gloeckner's novel, these talents have turned in a terrifically sensitive, startlingly honest coming-of-age story. Last week in Los Angeles, Vulture sat down with Skarsgard to talk about he approached his...
- 8/7/2015
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Remember the name Bel Powley. She's happily not under the microscope of the global media yet, but like Alicia Vikander, Michael B. Jordan and Margot Robbie, she’s part of the next wave of twentysomethings ready to make waves in the movie industry. Actually, she’s already doing it with her acclaimed performance in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” “I made this movie for teenage girls,” Powley says. “I need them to be able to see it. I feel the people that made that decision we missed the point of the film.” It’s an abnormally warm August afternoon in Los Angeles and Powley is holding court on a bright London Hotel deck as a parade of journalists sit down to discuss her breakout performance in Marielle Heller's directorial debut. The London born actress dissatisfaction is over the recent decision by the British Board of Film Classification (basically...
- 8/7/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Director: Marielle Heller; Screenwriter: Marielle Heller; Starring: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig; Running time: 102 mins; Certificate: 18
"What's the point of living if nobody loves you, nobody sees you, nobody touches you?"
Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a mesmerising journey into the dreams, anxieties and impulses of an aspiring teenage artist growing up in 1970s San Francisco. Boasting powerful performances from its lead stars, wonderfully creative direction and a story that will have you howling with laughter and recoiling with horror, it's a film that really resonates.
Bel Powley is magnificent as Minnie, a 15-year-old girl with a penchant for drawing penises and a growing desire to have her first sexual experience. An affair with her mother Charlotte's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård) helps to allay some of her anxieties, but paves the way for new ones and the potential destruction...
"What's the point of living if nobody loves you, nobody sees you, nobody touches you?"
Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a mesmerising journey into the dreams, anxieties and impulses of an aspiring teenage artist growing up in 1970s San Francisco. Boasting powerful performances from its lead stars, wonderfully creative direction and a story that will have you howling with laughter and recoiling with horror, it's a film that really resonates.
Bel Powley is magnificent as Minnie, a 15-year-old girl with a penchant for drawing penises and a growing desire to have her first sexual experience. An affair with her mother Charlotte's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård) helps to allay some of her anxieties, but paves the way for new ones and the potential destruction...
- 8/7/2015
- Digital Spy
It shouldn’t be radical to see a movie treat a girl with this level of appreciation and understanding of her most intimate inner self. Yet it is. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about girls and women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The projector kept choking, at the press screening of The Diary of a Teenage Girl I attended. For a long stretch during the middle of the film, every few minutes it would sputter and skip and then just go black. It was a little annoying, of course, and a bit of a mood killer, naturally, but mostly it was kind of amusing. I found myself thinking: Even this machine has been trained to think that any depiction of raw, bawdy female sexual desire is dangerous, and cannot be allowed,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The projector kept choking, at the press screening of The Diary of a Teenage Girl I attended. For a long stretch during the middle of the film, every few minutes it would sputter and skip and then just go black. It was a little annoying, of course, and a bit of a mood killer, naturally, but mostly it was kind of amusing. I found myself thinking: Even this machine has been trained to think that any depiction of raw, bawdy female sexual desire is dangerous, and cannot be allowed,...
- 8/7/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Often close to the bone, this exceptional film pulls off something seldom seen in cinema: a document of nascent female sexuality
Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s remarkable, sui generis semi-autobiographical graphic novel, this scaldingly honest comedy-drama surveys a rocky stretch in the adolescence of whipsmart 15-year-old budding artist Minnie (the incandescent Bel Powley, from Benidorm and A Royal Night Out).
Related: 18 certificate ruling keeps The Diary of a Teenage Girl away from teenage girls
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Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s remarkable, sui generis semi-autobiographical graphic novel, this scaldingly honest comedy-drama surveys a rocky stretch in the adolescence of whipsmart 15-year-old budding artist Minnie (the incandescent Bel Powley, from Benidorm and A Royal Night Out).
Related: 18 certificate ruling keeps The Diary of a Teenage Girl away from teenage girls
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- 8/6/2015
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
A smart, messy and welcome coming-of-age story, here's our review of Diary Of A Teenage Girl...
We're not short of coming-of-age stories. But the reason that stories of teenagers waking up to their sexuality, making stupid decisions and finding a sense of self have been told and re-told so many times is that adolescence, specifically those few months between teenage-dom and adulthood, are fascinating, unknowable and depict something pretty much everyone has been through one way or the other.
But female coming-of-age stories are harder to come by, in some part because Hollywood has always been a bit shy about showing female sexuality in any way that doesn't fit the established status quo. Diary Of A Teenage Girl, then, is a bit of an anomaly. Adapted from the graphic novel, Diary Of A Teenage Girl: An Account In Words And Pictures written by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Marielle Heller,...
We're not short of coming-of-age stories. But the reason that stories of teenagers waking up to their sexuality, making stupid decisions and finding a sense of self have been told and re-told so many times is that adolescence, specifically those few months between teenage-dom and adulthood, are fascinating, unknowable and depict something pretty much everyone has been through one way or the other.
But female coming-of-age stories are harder to come by, in some part because Hollywood has always been a bit shy about showing female sexuality in any way that doesn't fit the established status quo. Diary Of A Teenage Girl, then, is a bit of an anomaly. Adapted from the graphic novel, Diary Of A Teenage Girl: An Account In Words And Pictures written by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Marielle Heller,...
- 8/6/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Anyone worried about how Alexander Skarsgård’s career was going to turn out after “True Blood” can breathe easy. He’s doing just fine. The 38-year-old actor has wrapped a number of intriguing films since the HBO TV series shuttered including David Yates’ “Tarzan” (Yates first film since the “Harry Potter” series ended), John Michael McDonagh's "War on Everyone" (McDonagh’s follow up to “Cavalry”) and the horror flick “Hidden.” Most importantly, he's earned a ton of critical acclaim for his work in Marielle Heller’s “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” which debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and is finally hitting theaters in limited release this weekend. Based on Phoebe Gloecker’s autobiographical graphic novel, “Diary” centers on Minnie (Bel Powly), a 15-year-old girl exploring her sexuality in 1970’s San Francisco. One of the objects of her affection is her mother’s boyfriend Monroe (Skarsgård) and their...
- 8/6/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Read More: Sex and the Revolutionary Female Perspective in Marielle Heller's 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' Marielle Heller's Sundance hit "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is not your average coming of age story. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel 2002 "The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures," the film bravely and brazenly turns its taboo subject matter -- the sexual awakening of a teenage girl -- into a funny, smart and honest story that entertains as much as it educates. Heller's debut feature stars Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze, a precocious 15-year-old muddling her way through the swinging scene of seventies-era San Francisco. Like many girls her age, Minnie is struggling to find her place in the world, a journey made all the more difficult by her seemingly unstoppable hormones. As Minnie taps into her burgeoning sexual desires, her life takes...
- 8/6/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Girls just wanna have fun. And girls just wanna get laid. Hey, there are no judgments in Marielle Heller's half-excellent coming-of-age tale, “The Diary Of A Teenage Girl.” Provocative, brutally honest, R-rated formative year stories for females are certainly in short supply, and so Heller’s vividly drawn debut feature certainly delivers in this regard, with a rich and expressively effervescent bildungsroman story. But like so many Sundance narratives this year, Heller’s movie begins to overstate its case and loses hold of its charms in its darker, overlong second half, yet manages some deft navigation of potentially distasteful subjects and tricky source material. Based on cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novels, “The Diary Of A Teenage Girl” is about a sexually precocious adolescent girl in 1970s San Francisco who begins a complex affair with her mother’s boyfriend. The film undoubtedly introduces us to some great new talent: Minnie Goetze (an outstanding Bel.
- 8/5/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
In 2010, Marielle Heller starred in a theatrical adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, an autobiographic-ish coming-of-age tale based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s celebrated graphic novel. From this show came Heller’s chance to re-reimagine the novel for movie audiences, this time as director. In addition to the usual pitfalls of page-to-screen adaptations, Heller’s closeness to the material as filtered through another medium could have made her directing debut little more than an exercise in filmed theatre. It speaks to the mutability of that source material, Heller’s skill, or more likely, both, that The Diary of a Teenage Girl isn’t just a fully formed and realized movie, but a really terrific one to boot.
The tag “Sundance favourite” has become something of a double-edged honor; as soon as you show someone the derivative poster for The Diary of a Teenage Girl,...
The tag “Sundance favourite” has become something of a double-edged honor; as soon as you show someone the derivative poster for The Diary of a Teenage Girl,...
- 8/5/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Fed up of summer blockbusters, and looking for some more diverse films to watch in the month ahead? Here are some recommendations...
If you haven't seen it yet, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the kind of film that ruins you for other blockbusters. Handily, it was deployed right at the end of July, right around the time that most of us have had our blocks thoroughly busted. As we've noted around this time in recent years, you might even be feeling a little fatigued with the smashy-bangy of it all.
But the big movies will keep coming through August. Still to come this month, as blockbuster season winds down, are films like Adam Sandler's video game-themed sci-fi comedy Pixels, horror sequel Sinister 2 and reboots galore, in the form of Fantastic Four, Hitman: Agent 47 and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Before you know it, it'll be time to...
If you haven't seen it yet, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the kind of film that ruins you for other blockbusters. Handily, it was deployed right at the end of July, right around the time that most of us have had our blocks thoroughly busted. As we've noted around this time in recent years, you might even be feeling a little fatigued with the smashy-bangy of it all.
But the big movies will keep coming through August. Still to come this month, as blockbuster season winds down, are films like Adam Sandler's video game-themed sci-fi comedy Pixels, horror sequel Sinister 2 and reboots galore, in the form of Fantastic Four, Hitman: Agent 47 and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Before you know it, it'll be time to...
- 8/5/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Alexander Skarsgard, is that really you under there?
The True Blood star was unrecognisable as he arrived in full drag to the premiere of his new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl in San Francisco last night (August 4).
The actor was giving it Farrah Fawcett glamour in a blonde feathered wig, which he teamed with a floor-length gold gown.
It's believed Skarsgard - who is reportedly dating Alexa Chung - was paying tribute to co-star and drag performer Joshua Grannell, who plays a transvestite in Marielle Heller's controversial movie.
The film adapts Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, and centres around a young artist (Bel Powley) living in San Francisco in the '70s, who is having an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Skarsgard plays Monroe, the 35-year-old boyfriend having the affair unbeknown to his girlfriend...
The True Blood star was unrecognisable as he arrived in full drag to the premiere of his new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl in San Francisco last night (August 4).
The actor was giving it Farrah Fawcett glamour in a blonde feathered wig, which he teamed with a floor-length gold gown.
It's believed Skarsgard - who is reportedly dating Alexa Chung - was paying tribute to co-star and drag performer Joshua Grannell, who plays a transvestite in Marielle Heller's controversial movie.
The film adapts Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, and centres around a young artist (Bel Powley) living in San Francisco in the '70s, who is having an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Skarsgard plays Monroe, the 35-year-old boyfriend having the affair unbeknown to his girlfriend...
- 8/4/2015
- Digital Spy
Alexander Skarsgard, is that really you under there?
The True Blood star was unrecognisable as he arrived in full drag to the premiere of his new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl in San Francisco last night (August 4).
The actor was giving it Farrah Fawcett glamour in a blonde feathered wig, which he teamed with a floor-length gold gown.
It's believed Skarsgard - who is reportedly dating Alexa Chung - was paying tribute to co-star and drag performer Joshua Grannell, who plays a transvestite in Marielle Heller's controversial movie.
The film adapts Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, and centres around a young artist (Bel Powley) living in San Francisco in the '70s, who is having an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Skarsgard plays Monroe, the 35-year-old boyfriend having the affair unbeknown to his girlfriend...
The True Blood star was unrecognisable as he arrived in full drag to the premiere of his new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl in San Francisco last night (August 4).
The actor was giving it Farrah Fawcett glamour in a blonde feathered wig, which he teamed with a floor-length gold gown.
It's believed Skarsgard - who is reportedly dating Alexa Chung - was paying tribute to co-star and drag performer Joshua Grannell, who plays a transvestite in Marielle Heller's controversial movie.
The film adapts Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, and centres around a young artist (Bel Powley) living in San Francisco in the '70s, who is having an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Skarsgard plays Monroe, the 35-year-old boyfriend having the affair unbeknown to his girlfriend...
- 8/4/2015
- Digital Spy
★★★★☆Acquired by Vertigo Films after its glitzy Sundance premiere earlier this year, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) - based on Phoebe Gloeckner's comic novel of which was loosely inspired by her own life - is a provocative, candid and funny account of one self-aware teens awkward but liberating transition from childhood to womanhood and all the many bumps along the way. Minnie (Bel Powley) has recently lost her virginity - that day, in fact. The lucky suitor happens to be her mother's long-term boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). Their affair alights something deep down inside of Minnie, sending her on an exhilarating and devastating pursuit of herself without any limitations.
- 8/4/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As part of our "How I Shot That" series, Indiewire asked cinematographer Brandon Trost about his work on Marielle Heller's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," which world premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and will hit theaters on August 7, 2015. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel, the period film starring Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard, Chris Meloni and newcomer Bel Powley was shot on location in San Francisco. The film marked a shift back to independent films for Trost, who in recent years has been working on big-budget comedies such as "The Interview," "Neighbors" and "This is the End." Read More: Marielle Heller, Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgad Discuss Creativity and Gender at 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Screening What camera and lens did you use? Red Epic, C-Series Panavision anamorphic lenses How did you get involved with this project? It's funny. I got involved with this movie because.
- 8/3/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the latest comic book movie to feature a heroine, but women are still woefully underrepresented in the genre overall
Not many comic book movies start with a scruffy, smiling 15-year-old girl confessing: “I had sex today … Holy shit.” If we met Minnie, the protagonist of Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2002 graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl in any other comic book adaptation, she’d most likely be the high school siren and love interest. If she’s lucky she might be a feisty foil in the mould of Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman or Anna Kendrick’s Stacey Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. But she wouldn’t have thoughts or a movie of her own.
The forthcoming films of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel are long overdue, and hopefully will fare better than a lot of other past big-budget,...
Not many comic book movies start with a scruffy, smiling 15-year-old girl confessing: “I had sex today … Holy shit.” If we met Minnie, the protagonist of Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2002 graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl in any other comic book adaptation, she’d most likely be the high school siren and love interest. If she’s lucky she might be a feisty foil in the mould of Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman or Anna Kendrick’s Stacey Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. But she wouldn’t have thoughts or a movie of her own.
The forthcoming films of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel are long overdue, and hopefully will fare better than a lot of other past big-budget,...
- 8/3/2015
- by Isabel Stevens
- The Guardian - Film News
New film director Marielle Heller, 35, trained as an actress and fell in love with Phoebe Gloeckner's 2002 graphic novel "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" eight years ago. She first turned it into an off-Broadway play and took the lead herself, then penned a film script, which was accepted by the Sundance writer and director workshops, where she honed it with the likes of Nicole Holofcener, Michael Arndt and Scott Frank, and gained the confidence to recognize that writing and acting chops were half the battle when directing your first movie. Heller landed bankable actors Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard. And she debuted her first feature to rousing acclaim at this January's Sundance Film Festival, where Sony Pictures Classics acquired multiple rights. Read: 6 Things to Know About 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl,' Part of Sundance's Women's New Wave Gloeckner's book is all over the movie, which opens with a teenage girl declaring,...
- 8/3/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On Sunday, July 26, Indiewire and Sony Pictures Classics co-hosted a special advanced screening of Sundance sensation "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" at The Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills. Since its premiere, the film has generated critical acclaim. It recently opened The Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA's annual New Directors/ New Film series. Adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel of the same name, the story follows Minnie (Bel Powley), who goes through a sexual awakening upon sleeping with her mother's boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard). Following the screening, Anne Thompson moderated a Q&A with writer-director Marielle Heller and stars Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgard. Check out highlights from the discussion below: Read More: Sundance Review: 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Unlocks the Secrets of Adolescence It's a one-of-a-kind coming of age story.You've never seen anything quite like "The Diary of a Teenage Girl.
- 7/27/2015
- by Conor Soules
- Indiewire
Read More: New Directors/New Films Opens with Provocative Sundance Hit 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' With the release of Marielle Heller's "Diary of a Teenage Girl" set for August 7, the wait for the highly anticipated Sundance coming-of-age drama is almost over. Adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel, the film is set in San Francisco during the 1970s and centers on Minnie (Bel Powley), a young girl who has a sexual awakening when she starts sleeping with her mother's boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard). In a new clip from the film, Minnie's mother, played by Kristen Wiig, shares some sexual advice with her daughter and tries to convince her to start some sexual exploration of her own. It seems as if the two reverse roles as Minnie is trying to figure out how to grow up, while her mother attempts to maintain her youth. Watch the clip below, courtesy of EW.
- 7/23/2015
- by Conor Soules
- Indiewire
Read More: Watch: First Trailer for Sundance Breakout 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Gets Honest About Female Sexuality Marielle Heller's directorial debut "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" won her the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The film's stunning details an '70s-inspired colors can be seen in new stills released for the film. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's novel of the same name, the film follows 15-year-old Minnie Goetze (breakout star Bel Powley), a teenager growing up in 1976 San Francisco, and the affair that develops between herself and her mother's boyfriend. While Minnie's mother is out partying and her father is somewhere else entirely, she longs for purpose and affection, and finds that in her mother's paramour (Alexander Skarsgård). The film also stars Christopher Meloni and Kristen Wiig. It is set to premiere on August 7. Check out the stills below.
- 7/17/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Love is extremely complicated for Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgård in a trailer for The Diary of a Teenage Girl.
Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel about the sexual awakening of a teenager named Minnie Goetze (Powley) is being adapted for the screen by filmmaker Marielle Heller.
Rather than the sentimental portrayals of first love, Diary of a Teenage Girl is a frank and bitingly comic portrayal of the highs and lows of lust.
Diary of a Teenage Girl was shot on location early last year in San Francisco with a cast that also includes Christopher Meloni (True Blood) and Austin Lyon (Marvel's Agents of Shield).
The comedy premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, and also won the Grand Prix of Generation 14plus at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl opens in Us cinemas on August 7. A UK release is yet to be set.
Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel about the sexual awakening of a teenager named Minnie Goetze (Powley) is being adapted for the screen by filmmaker Marielle Heller.
Rather than the sentimental portrayals of first love, Diary of a Teenage Girl is a frank and bitingly comic portrayal of the highs and lows of lust.
Diary of a Teenage Girl was shot on location early last year in San Francisco with a cast that also includes Christopher Meloni (True Blood) and Austin Lyon (Marvel's Agents of Shield).
The comedy premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, and also won the Grand Prix of Generation 14plus at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl opens in Us cinemas on August 7. A UK release is yet to be set.
- 7/3/2015
- Digital Spy
A comic-book movie with a difference, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is based on a much-loved illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. It’s the kind of thing chin-stroking film critics (especially German one) might call a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age tale about a girl growing up in swinging San Francisco in the 1970s. The movie has a new trailer you can catch below.The young girl in question, Minnie, is played by an eye-catching Bel Powley. Her flawless Californian tones belie London roots as Minnie, a gifted cartoonist and writer, navigates all the perks and pitfalls of being a teenager as she experiments with sex, drugs and Iggy Pop posters.Her mum (Kristen Wiig) is seeing a well-meaning but hazy character called Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), who soon becomes the focus of Minnie’s infatuations. She records all her most intimate thoughts and experiences – and they get pretty intimate – in a...
- 7/1/2015
- EmpireOnline
A girl comes of age in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” the film adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel. The film, coming to theaters Aug. 7, stars Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni and Kristen Wiig and is directed by Marielle Heller, who also wrote the adapted screenplay. Powley plays Minnie Goetze, a girl who is like most teenage girls her age; wanting love and acceptance. Her want for love, plays into a love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). “Set in 1976 San Francisco, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie [ Read More ]
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- 6/16/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgård have a very complicated romance in the trailer for The Diary of a Teenage Girl.
The period drama is based around teenager Minnie (Benidorm's Bel Powley) coming of age as she discovers the power of sexuality.
Minnie's relationship with her eccentric mother Charlotte (Wiig) turns complicated when she begins an affair with her mum's boyfriend (Skarsgård).
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel of the same name.
It had its premiere earlier this year at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, earning positive reviews for its frank portrayal of adolescence.
Us and UK audiences will be able to see The Diary of a Teenage Girl on August 7.
The period drama is based around teenager Minnie (Benidorm's Bel Powley) coming of age as she discovers the power of sexuality.
Minnie's relationship with her eccentric mother Charlotte (Wiig) turns complicated when she begins an affair with her mum's boyfriend (Skarsgård).
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel of the same name.
It had its premiere earlier this year at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, earning positive reviews for its frank portrayal of adolescence.
Us and UK audiences will be able to see The Diary of a Teenage Girl on August 7.
- 5/28/2015
- Digital Spy
When a movie can talk about a girl’s sexuality without exploitation, diluting the point with girl power music or using a hapless schtick, it’s an achievement. It shouldn’t have to be considered an achievement of course, but have you seen the movies trying to tackle this subject? Good grief.
So here we have the first trailer for the coming-of-age Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl. It’s based on Phoebe Gloeckner‘s novel and stars Bel Powley as a fifteen-year-old girl navigating the counter culture haze of the 1970s who begins an affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard).
The movie looks to be taking a real and direct approach to sexuality with its heavy story and unique visuals; it reminds me Terry Zwigoff’s great work with Ghost World or Heather Matarazzo in Welcome to the Dollhouse. I will be keeping...
So here we have the first trailer for the coming-of-age Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl. It’s based on Phoebe Gloeckner‘s novel and stars Bel Powley as a fifteen-year-old girl navigating the counter culture haze of the 1970s who begins an affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard).
The movie looks to be taking a real and direct approach to sexuality with its heavy story and unique visuals; it reminds me Terry Zwigoff’s great work with Ghost World or Heather Matarazzo in Welcome to the Dollhouse. I will be keeping...
- 5/27/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Check out the new trailer for the Sundance hit The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, starring Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni and Kristen Wiig.
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Set in 1976 San Francisco, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock.
News commentary of the Patty Hearst trial echoes in the background, as Minnie’s young expressive eyes soak in a drug-laden city in transition- where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in characters lost and longing. Minnie...
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Set in 1976 San Francisco, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock.
News commentary of the Patty Hearst trial echoes in the background, as Minnie’s young expressive eyes soak in a drug-laden city in transition- where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in characters lost and longing. Minnie...
- 5/27/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"I refuse to be some sniveling crybaby, this is my life!" Yay! Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the official trailer for one of other favorite Sundance 2015 films, this one being The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the big breakout debuts of both director Marielle Heller and actress Bel Powley. Both of them are amazingly talented! Bel Powley stars as Minnie in an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's book, about the coming-of-age story of a kick ass, free-spirited girl living in San Francisco. The cast includes Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig and Christopher Meloni. This is such a great film, and it comes highly recommended from all of us who saw it at Sundance - here's our review. And the trailer doesn't give away too much! Take a look. Here's the first trailer for Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl, originally from Yahoo: The Diary of a Teenage Girl...
- 5/26/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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