30 August 2015

The triangle

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Crit
OK, put this in your datebook: in August 2015 we are at last able to acknowledge without prurience that a 15-year-old girl can be just as sex-obsessed as a 15-year-old boy, and equally ill-equipped to deal with the ancillary issues that arise with the pursuit of sexuality, which is to say marginally more ill-equipped than the average sexually active adult.

A beautiful film that is about as close in spirit to Scary Normal as any I've seen--sort of its raunchier, acting-out cousin from '70s San Francisco. Bel Powley can be in any film I exec produce. And by the way, another truth this film tells is that all the experimentation of '70s (and by extension '60s) San Francisco probably did more good than harm.
Trailers
  • Grandma--I was already 100% in on this, and if I hadn't been, Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner (so good as Kimmy in season 3 of The Americans) would have convinced me.
  • Labyrinth of Lies--A lawyer with a conscience pushing postwar German to own up; looks like the rare Holocaust film we haven't already seen.

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