After finding success at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Marielle Heller’s **The Diary Of A Teenage Girl **is hoping it can break out into the wider world. The first trailer has arrived online.
The film stars Bel Powley – largely unknown across the pond, but a veteran of UK TV – as Minnie Goetz, a teenager yearning for life experience and love in particular in 1970s San Francisco. She finds the latter – or at least, a sexual relationship – with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). But while the experience pushes her to a sexual and artistic awakening, not everything is perfect in her life.
Heller adapted the script from Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel, and the film does include a lot of imagery and flights of fantasy. Hopefully it’ll find a decent audience over here as well as in the States. With Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva, Madeleine Waters and Abby Wait in the cast, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl arrives in UK cinemas on August 7.