A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Director:
Marielle HellerWriters:
Phoebe Gloeckner (novel), Marielle Heller(screenplay)Stars:
Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig
Storyline:The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) Full HD
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend
Movie Reviews : The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) Full HD
"I had sex today. Holy sh--!" Minnie (Bel Powley)
If you have a daughter around 15, may I suggest you see The Prophet, a wispy cartoon about a philosopher and his devoted town, because Diary of a Teen Age Girl will set you off balance for days. Oh, although it has cartoons, they include flaccid and erect penises. Still in all, it can be an amusing insight into a teen's secret life, and by extension, all teens'.
Minnie, a San-Francisco teen having an affair with her mom's (Kristen Wiig) vacuous35-year old lover, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard), is sexually alert and ready. Although her affair causes her some trauma as she faces the emotional consequences, she is less affected by the other casual liaisons of all kinds in her relentless search to emulate the adults in her life but only to find the search as hollow as she sees it in them.
Her idol is cartoonist Aline Kominsky, whose work is similar to Minnie's. The insertion of graphic, amusing cartoons helps relieve the depressing descent of Minnie into rampant sex with diminishing returns. As a true coming-of-age film, Diary of a teen age Girl is more about the girl morphing into a woman (she has the body but not the sensibility) through some dark but sometimes humorous encounters.
As a father of five daughters, I shuddered at some of the all-to-real encounters, but, hey, the film is about the '70's in San Francisco when anything goes. If you strip away the liberal life style, the issues for a teen remain universal: How much can you rely on your parents for guidance? Do adults exploit children? Is same sex sex a kick? Do drugs help? Another question might be asked: Why does Monroe not go to jail for statuary rape? Answer: This film is a fantasy of a teen's first sex, and the rude outside world need not apply to be a part. It's all a cartoon dream and humorous if you take it the right way.
If you have a daughter around 15, may I suggest you see The Prophet, a wispy cartoon about a philosopher and his devoted town, because Diary of a Teen Age Girl will set you off balance for days. Oh, although it has cartoons, they include flaccid and erect penises. Still in all, it can be an amusing insight into a teen's secret life, and by extension, all teens'.
Minnie, a San-Francisco teen having an affair with her mom's (Kristen Wiig) vacuous35-year old lover, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard), is sexually alert and ready. Although her affair causes her some trauma as she faces the emotional consequences, she is less affected by the other casual liaisons of all kinds in her relentless search to emulate the adults in her life but only to find the search as hollow as she sees it in them.
Her idol is cartoonist Aline Kominsky, whose work is similar to Minnie's. The insertion of graphic, amusing cartoons helps relieve the depressing descent of Minnie into rampant sex with diminishing returns. As a true coming-of-age film, Diary of a teen age Girl is more about the girl morphing into a woman (she has the body but not the sensibility) through some dark but sometimes humorous encounters.
As a father of five daughters, I shuddered at some of the all-to-real encounters, but, hey, the film is about the '70's in San Francisco when anything goes. If you strip away the liberal life style, the issues for a teen remain universal: How much can you rely on your parents for guidance? Do adults exploit children? Is same sex sex a kick? Do drugs help? Another question might be asked: Why does Monroe not go to jail for statuary rape? Answer: This film is a fantasy of a teen's first sex, and the rude outside world need not apply to be a part. It's all a cartoon dream and humorous if you take it the right way.
Feeling trapped in her college freshman year experience, Tracy calls and visits her soon-to-be sister Brooke. (Their parents are about to get married.) Tracy becomes more confident and self-assured during the course of her interaction with the lively Brooke. But even though Brooke is Tracy's inspiration, Brooke has not found a way to successfully live her own life.
The movie has so much more richness and depth than its basic plot. The other characters are very well drawn, and include Tony, a college buddy who relates to Tracy's loser self; Tony's comically possessive girlfriend, Nicolette; Brooke's old boyfriend Dylan, who is excited by Brooke's passion but understands her fundamental limitations, and Dylan's wife Mamie Claire, who was once Brooke's close friend and feels threatened by Brooke on multiple levels. Even minor characters play an important role: Someone who only knew Brooke in middle school and approaches her at a restaurant, providing piercing insight into Brooke's flawed psyche; Mamie Claire's pregnant visitor, who, like a member of a Greek chorus, observes and comments on the proceedings.
Throughout the movie, lines zing by to reinforce the movie's themes, like…
Tracy saying in a voice over that Brooke "has a face that makes you feel more pretty." That is, Tracy feels better and actually becomes better being around Brooke.
When tutoring Algebra, Brooke says "x can be anything, you can't pin it down," revealing as much about herself as about the properties of x.