The Diary of a Teenage Girl
A young teenager artist girl, who has an ordinary and boring life in San Francisco, where she loves with her mother and struggles against having no friends, so she was an easy prey for her mother's boyfriend, as she enters in an affair with him, the thing that brings terrible for her, as she does everything to keep the matter secret.
30 December 1972, Michigan, USA
30 January 1977, Vail, Colorado, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
7 January 1974, Maryland, USA
1959, New York, USA
9 February 1980, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
September 30, 2016
It's as sincere and honest as Minnie can be heartfelt and self-assertive. Bittersweetly raw about young-adult feelings and feeling so not-quite-adult. Joins Show Me Love and She Monkeys in the pantheon of superb female coming-of-age films.
August 20, 2015
Writer/director Marielle Heller, in her captivating debut film "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," hits exactly the right tone for a complicated balancing act, and for a film that could very easily have gone wrong.
August 20, 2015
Films often fail to capture the turmoil of being a teenager - but not this one.
August 15, 2016
Dives head first in to the coming of age of a young woman, warts and all.
March 23, 2017
I'm reluctant to call this presentation of female sexuality 'brave,' because I don't think it's brave so much as just plain true
August 28, 2015
Powerful, exhausting, ecstatic, twisted and unerringly honest, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a rare film indeed, a look at a young girl's messy coming of age told completely from the young girl's point of view.
August 20, 2015
"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a breakthrough moment in the culture in that it depicts youthful female sexuality ... not just with the unapologetic frankness the boys usually get, but with an awareness of all the places a girl's urges will take her ...
December 13, 2016
Marielle Heller's adaption of Phoebe Gloeckner's excellent graphic novel captures that specific, lurching dynamic [of 1970s parenting] to the degree that those of us who lived through it might find ourselves dropping our jaws in recognition.
June 12, 2016
You'll be happy to meet the strong, smart -- and yes -- unapologetically horny teenage Minnie and, for two hours, be immersed in her world.
August 20, 2015
"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is as rewarding as it is squirm-inducing for its honesty, audacity and artful portrayal of adolescence from a girl's point of view.
July 11, 2016
The Diary of A Teenage Girl moves in a sun-drenched haze, spattered with animation, thrilling in its very mundanity. It's smart and assured and, like Minnie, knows what it wants. Astonishing.
August 20, 2015
An honest and personal and unblurred examination (even through that druggy blur) of a tricky voyage into womanhood.
