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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015
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1h 42m
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Rated 07 Sep 2015
81
83rd
Diary doesn't adhere to normal coming-of-age conventions, and, from what I've seen of other reviews, is prone to making audiences uncomfortable because of its absence of condescending morality. The film's ability to be empowering and illuminating despite these set backs is impressive.
Rated 22 Sep 2015
55
39th
A YA companion piece to Lars von Trier's latest. Mostly noteworthy for an impressive performance by Bel Powley.
Rated 17 Jan 2016
91
91st
Interesting & sometimes exciting look into the mind of a teenage girl. Bel Powley gives a excellent & convincing performance as the awkward, insecure 15 year old girl who craves love & attention. Alexander Skarsgard was especially good as her love interest & mother's boyfriend. Kristen Wiig was also very satisfying. The writing was good. Video white balance was off, perhaps to look old. The dialog & music was very good. The story is quite scandalous, a bit raunchy but felt genuine.
Rated 30 Aug 2015
80
75th
Oh wow! A film about a teenaged girl's sexuality that doesn't involve heavy-handed moralizing. This film does a great job of balancing the imaginative versus reality. The cartoony graphic novel origins of this film give the visuals a rich texture.
Rated 31 Aug 2015
9
90th
A story of abuse and exploitation, but the movie never depicts Minnie as only a victim. She's more than that. She's human. She's an unapologetic participant. She frequently uses the illicitness of her affair to her own advantage. She's empowered, but she's also full of contradictions and insecurities. Like the broken adults she's surrounded by, she longs for love and external validation; lifelong desires nobody stops looking for.
Rated 20 Jan 2016
72
52nd
Sara Gunnarsdottir's hand-drew animations are wonderful.
Rated 03 Nov 2015
67
24th
One of those films that has all the elements of something I would like with all the individual pieces being top notch, but it just didn't connect with me. Felt slow and I was never invested in the characters. It's not you, film, it's me.
Rated 13 Jan 2016
80
80th
Refreshingly candid and non-judgmental film that nicely captures the feel of 70s San Francisco spinning out of control in a drug-fueled haze. It features an extraordinary performance by Bel Powley in a part that is unusually complex in comparison to most of what's available for female actors in American films.
Rated 01 Sep 2015
50
14th
It focuses on an out-of-control 15 year-old girl, her irresponsible mother, and her mother's perv boyfriend (she's only supposed to be 15 and looks it). You'd think these people would have learned how screwed up they are long before they did. Characters who see the train wreck coming but are unable to veer off, usually draw audiences, but apparently not this one.
Rated 29 Aug 2015
70
77th
"I don't need no man: the movie."
Rated 08 Jan 2016
50
77th
So spirited in all it's teen sexuality! Then it drops the ball the second half of the film which become a drag. At least it was unashamed of it's sexual exploration being mostly a positive about it's attitude.
Rated 03 Sep 2015
55
53rd
A good coming-of-age story, if an atypical one. Impressively non-judgmental, given the fairly fucked up content, and funny too. However, a lot of the style that carried over from the graphic novel feels vastly out of place here, and the movie never completely feels like it comes together.
Rated 13 Aug 2015
64
71st
Funny and horrifying. Both at the same time.
Rated 30 Aug 2015
82
58th
15-year-old Minnie (Bel Powley) begins exploring her sexuality, primarily with her mother's boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård); she comes to realize just how much growing up she still has to do. Charming, spirited coming-of-age take, with a winning performance from Powley and an effectively pathetic one from Skarsgård. Marielle Heller's direction is often vibrant, making great use of animation; her script has many bright moments but never quite coheres into greatness. Still worth a look.
Rated 01 Jan 2016
75
39th
I'm familiar with Phoebe Gloeckner's comics and this movie was as good a translation as I was expecting. Bel Powley really breathes life into this teenage girl (Minnie), and Alexander Skarsgard definitely has acting chops and a certain amount of bravado to take on the roll. The director never gets sanctimonious with the subject matter which is refreshingly deferential to a 21st century audience.
Rated 07 Jan 2016
80
37th
I admire that this film has no qualms about its material, and that everything is shown through the perspective of the main character. Because everything makes sense in her head, it should make sense in our head. It's all very honest, revealing, warm. Bel Powley is great and Alexander Skarsgard is great. It's kinda nice to see something so free of judgment.
Rated 21 Mar 2016
4
43rd
It hovers in this weird, should-be-impossible middle ground between overly twee and Junoesque and at the very same time rather grim and depressing, like eating too much ice cream until you feel sick, but the ice cream is broccoli flavored. Its saving grace is Bel Powley in the lead role, who is very watchable and almost makes me feel for her character even as the film itself seems to dare me not to. Attractive cinematography for a teen film.
Rated 09 Mar 2016
57
79th
#16#, exp3, rw3, story, ratings, Kristen.W/7B4
Rated 29 Feb 2016
78
72nd
i hope way less people are being as stupid as this lil bitch
Rated 09 Jan 2017
76
43rd
I felt like this film was a bad fit for me in many ways - wrong era, wrong gender, wrong music, wrong sexual/emotional perspective. I wasn't very engrossed. Also I was expecting some sort of comedy. Apparently it comes from a comic or something. Reminded me of this Swedish film "Call Girl". About a young teen going off the deep end. I can see why the story would appeal to some people, but not why the film was recommended to me as one of the highlights of the year.
Rated 29 Aug 2016
74
17th
29.08.2016 Lev
Rated 10 Jul 2015
20
3rd
Yeah... I walked into the wrong room at the theatre...
Rated 05 Aug 2021
70
54th
One could say that the city of San Francisco itself was a character that was complicit in the abuse of a teenage girl
Rated 30 Sep 2016
77
53rd
If you ever wondered how a once innocent young girl might turn out to be a stripper, a porn actress, or worse, just watch this movie. It's a mature, genuine coming-of-age story that illustrates the impact that individual decisions, as well as individual role models, can have on impressionable young people. I love how none of the characters are depicted as explicitly "bad". Even Skarsgard's character, who is, in fact, a pretty immoral person, isn't overtly nasty and villainous.
Rated 19 Aug 2016
74
63rd
Unexpectedly unique. Surprising
Rated 11 Feb 2016
3
36th
i could do without the rudimentary empowerment arc complete with cheeseball slogans, and the animated flourishes were mostly unimaginative quirk, and i kept inevitably comparing it to the similar and vastly superior THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT which everyone should watch right the fuck now, and i can't say i really believed in or understood the characters... though i did appreciate the avoidance of stock characterisation and the provocative refusal to judge. plus powley has a hell of an expressive face.
Rated 16 Feb 2016
55
34th
I liked the ways in which it was different from other films of this type, but it still ended up being pretty conventional. It's like a more extreme Thirteen, or a way less extreme Nymphomaniac. I found myself bored for a lot of it, to be honest, though there were parts of the screenplay I liked a lot. It was dirty and cynical, but not in an interesting or endearing way. Skarsgård was pretty good. It's probably worth watching if you like the look of it, but it didn't do much for me.
Rated 05 May 2019
8
65th
This film is so refreshingly honest. The psych art was also a treat.
Rated 22 Jan 2016
45
16th
yapmaya çalıştığı şey takdir edilesi ama başaramıyor.
Rated 31 May 2016
88
80th
Bel Powley (Minnie) offers a stellar performance in this movie - as well as Alexander Skarsgard (Monroe). An incredible directorial debut from Marielle Heller who also wrote the screenplay for the film. Although it is very much a coming-of-age film, it bucks convention and pushes the audience to think about what it actually means to grow up.
Rated 29 Aug 2018
88
63rd
Again one of those films, where you expect bad things to eventually happen and then they happen. Wonder when America see its first sex-positive coming of age movie, propably ever. But disturbing enough to make impact.
Rated 20 Oct 2018
6
55th
Bel Powley's wonderfully expressive face is something to see.
Rated 09 Jan 2020
90
75th
This is a coming-of-age story that is *supposed* to make you feel extremely uncomfortable. The POV is very clearly against relationships where there is a huge imbalance of power and experience. Minnie craves touch and affection and love, which she is so not getting from her mother, so she conflates that with the start of her sexual experimentations. Bel Powley is fantastic. Other reviews of this film irk me. How they underline that the film is not 'judgmental'. Urgh. That's not the point.

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