'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' is about a fifteen year old who commences a relationship with her mother's boyfriend. It is a coming of age story but one that is rather confronting.
Minnie (Bel Powley) wants to have sex and having achieved her wish she then seeks sex out almost ravenously. This is not an uncommon depiction in relation to boys experimenting with their evolving sexuality but seeing the gender tables turned, throw in the fact that a minor and an adult - her mother's boyfriend no less - are the participants and display it all fairly frankly on the screen and the whole thing is quite unnerving.
I was pretty uneasy viewing this film. The creators walk a very tight line between serious story telling and salacious porn. I'm sure the intention is the former but this film does make for uncomfortable viewing.
★★★
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