The Diary of a Teenage Girl

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
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Directed by Marielle Heller
Screenplay byMarielle Heller
Based on The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
by Phoebe Gloeckner
Produced by
  • Miranda Bailey
  • Anne Carey
  • Bert Hamelinck
  • Madeline Samit
Starring
Cinematography Brandon Trost
Edited by
Music byNate Heller
Production
companies
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates
  • January 24, 2015 (2015-01-24)(Sundance)
  • August 7, 2015 (2015-08-07)(United States)
Running time
102 minutes [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million [3]
Box office$2.3 million [4]

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the hybrid novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner. It stars Bel Powley as a 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active by starting a relationship with her mother's boyfriend. It also stars Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Quinn Nagle, and Austin Lyon. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited release on August 7, 2015, by Sony Pictures Classics. [2]

Contents

Plot

In 1976 San Francisco, 15-year-old aspiring cartoonist Minnie Goetze begins keeping an audio diary. She is stirred by her awakening sexuality and wants to lose her virginity. She fears she may be unattractive.

When Minnie's bohemian mother Charlotte is too busy to go out with her boyfriend Monroe, she suggests he take Minnie out instead. At a bar, they flirt and she tells him she wants to sleep with him. They begin meeting at his apartment and having sex. She shares the details of her sexual experiences with her friend Kimmie, and records them in her audio diary.

At a comic book store, Minnie sees cartoonist Aline Kominsky signing books. She mails Aline her first comic, about a woman walking through town.

Minnie sleeps twice with her schoolmate Ricky, but he finds her sexual enthusiasm intimidating. At a bar, Minnie and Kimmie decide to pose as prostitutes. They fellate two boys in the bathroom, but the next day they agree it was a bad choice. Minnie's stepfather, Pascal, calls from New York City and invites Minnie to live with him, but she declines.

Charlotte loses her job as a librarian, so Minnie and her younger sister Gretel ask Pascal for money, and though he is irritated, he sends the family a check. After a wild party, Minnie, Kimmie, and Monroe have a threesome. As Minnie seems bothered by the encounter, Kimmie later announces that it was a one-off and, she adds, it's not as if Minnie loves Monroe.

Minnie realises that she does love Monroe and tells him so. She becomes increasingly uncomfortable with her affair, and Monroe keeps breaking it off, saying it's wrong to continue having sex. Yet when she wants sex, he acts too tired or pushes her down to give him a blow job. Her own satisfaction is a minor consideration.

Minnie confronts Monroe, but he says he didn't sleep the night before and needs a nap. Minnie is annoyed but lets him climb into bed with her. He coaxes her into talking dirty about a guy she met at the cinema and then asks if it would hurt her if they were to have sex.

After they have sex and take acid together, Minnie sees herself covered in feathers and flying, but Monroe has a bad trip, convinced they are being watched. During the trip he tells Minnie he loves her and she realizes that she no longer cares for him. Monroe begins making plans for them to be together when she is 18, but Minnie leaves.

While Charlotte grows suspicious of the relationship between Minnie and Monroe, he convinces her that she is imagining things. However, Charlotte discovers Minnie's audio diary and confronts them. She decides that Minnie and Monroe must now marry, which he agrees to. Minnie runs away from home in disgust and begins seeing a risk-taking lesbian, Tabatha. When Tabatha brings her to a drug dealer, having told him that Minnie will have sex with him for drugs, Minnie returns to her family.

Minnie finds a letter from Aline encouraging her to draw more comics. Selling her comics and zines on the beach, Minnie runs into Monroe. She is cold towards him, and they go their separate ways. She reflects on her emotional growth and realizes that the only way to find happiness is by loving herself, not by depending on another person's affection.

Cast

Production

Development

Writer and director Heller received Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl as a Christmas gift from her younger sister in 2007. [5] Of the book, Heller said it "just lit something up inside of me when I first read it. It felt closer to capturing what a real teenage girl feels than anything I'd ever read. And there is such a void onscreen of the voices of authentic teenage girls." [6] Over the next few years Heller adapted the graphic novel into a play, in which she played the lead role. [7] Gloeckner gave her consent to Heller's stage adaptation after attending a read-through, saying "[Marielle] created something so moving, and it was the first time I had seen the characters in three dimensions. It was like being in a hologram, seeing ghosts from my past wandering around." [6] [7]

The play was originally conceived with Rachel Eckerling and then developed from 2007 to 2010 with Eckerling and Sarah Cameron Sunde. Sunde and Eckerling went on to co-direct the full production. [8] The Diary of a Teenage Girl play premiered at 3LD Arts and Technology Center, produced by Aaron Louis in association with New Georges and The Essentials. [8] The production design functioned as an immersive theatrical experience with a carpeted sunken living room and pillows for the audience to sit on, and video and actors' actions took place in a full surround environment. [9] It was critically acclaimed and ran for six weeks in March–April 2010. [10] [7] In adapting the book into a film, Heller went through "roughly 85 drafts" of the script. [6] [7]

Filming

On January 10, 2014, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, and Bel Powley were reported to have joined the cast of the film as leads. [11] Powley auditioned for the role of Minnie by submitting a tape from England in which she did an American accent throughout, convincing Heller she actually was American. [12] Caviar co-financed with Cold Iron Pictures, and co-produced with Archer Gray Productions. [13] Principal photography began on January 10, 2014, in San Francisco, California, and continued into February. [11] [14] [15]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2015. [16] Shortly after, it was announced Sony Pictures Classics had acquired distribution rights to the film. [3] The film was given a limited release on August 7, 2015. [4]

In the United Kingdom, the film was the subject of some controversy because of the decision of the BBFC to give it an "18" certificate. [17]

Critical reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 164 reviews, with an average rating of 7.93/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Boldly unconventional and refreshingly honest, Diary of a Teenage Girl is a frank coming-of-age story that addresses its themes—and its protagonist—without judgment." [18] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [19]

Indiewire described the film as "genuine, poignant and hilarious." [20] The Guardian gave it five out of five stars and called it "morally complex and sometimes uncomfortably close to the bone, but also lushly bawdy and funny, and packaged together with an astonishing degree of cinematic brio." [21] Emily St. James of Vox praised the movie for being "quietly radical", describing it as "a story of huge emotions and big moments, told via intimate gestures and tiny power shifts". [22]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Alliance of Women Film Journalists January 12, 2016 Best Woman Director Marielle Heller Won [23] [24]
Best Woman ScreenwriterNominated
Best Breakthrough Performance Bel Powley Nominated
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or SeductionThe Diary of a Teenage GirlNominated
Austin Film Critics Association December 29, 2015 Best First FilmNominated [25]
Berlin International Film Festival February 15, 2015 Crystal Bear for the Best Film of the Generation 14plusNominated [26]
Grand Prix of the Generation 14plusWon
Boston Society of Film Critics December 11, 2015 Best New Filmmaker Marielle HellerWon [27]
Chicago Film Critics Association December 16, 2015 Most Promising FilmmakerNominated [28]
Most Promising PerformerBel PowleyNominated
Detroit Film Critics Society December 14, 2015 Best Actress Nominated [29]
Breakthrough Artist Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards February 6, 2016 Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film Marielle HellerNominated [30]
Dorian Awards January 19, 2016 Unsung Film of the YearThe Diary of a Teenage GirlNominated [31]
Edinburgh International Film Festival June 28, 2015Best International Feature FilmWon [32]
Audience Award2nd Runner-up [33]
Empire Awards March 20, 2016 Best Female Newcomer Bel PowleyNominated [34]
FEST (film festival) March 6, 2016Best FilmThe Diary of a Teenage GirlWon [35]
Best DirectorMarielle HellerWon
Florida Film Critics Circle December 23, 2015 Pauline Kael Breakout AwardBel PowleyNominated [36]
Gijón International Film Festival November 28, 2015Best Production DesignJonah MarkowitzWon [37]
Best FilmThe Diary of a Teenage GirlNominated
Gotham Awards November 30, 2015 Best Feature Nominated [38] [39]
Breakthrough Director Marielle HellerNominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Actress Bel PowleyWon
Audience Award The Diary of a Teenage GirlNominated
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards January 21, 2016Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under 5 Million Dollars Howard Paar Won [40]
Independent Spirit Awards February 27, 2016 Best Female Lead Bel PowleyNominated [41]
Best First Screenplay Marielle HellerNominated
Best First Feature The Diary of a Teenage GirlWon
IndieWire Critics Poll December 14, 2015 Best First FeatureRunner-up [42]
Best Lead ActressBel Powley8th place
Kansas City Film Critics Circle December 20, 2015Best ActressNominated [43]
Palm Springs International Film Festival January 3, 2015Directors to WatchMarielle HellerWon [44]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle December 12, 2015 Best Screenplay – Adapted Nominated [45]
Sundance Film Festival February 1, 2015 U.S. Grand Jury Prize: DramaticThe Diary of a Teenage GirlNominated [46]
Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic Brandon Trost Won
Village Voice Film Poll December 16, 2015Best First FeatureThe Diary of a Teenage GirlWon [47]
Women Film Critics Circle December 17, 2015Best Movie by a WomanNominated [48]
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award Kristen Wiig Nominated
Best Young ActressBel PowleyNominated
Women's Image Network Awards February 10, 2016 Outstanding Actress Feature FilmNominated [49]
Outstanding Feature FilmThe Diary of a Teenage GirlWon
Zurich Film Festival October 4, 2015Best International Feature FilmSpecial Mention [50]

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