I was interested in this anyway, but when I learned that it was based on a work and the life of Phoebe Gloeckner, I knew I had to see this. I only have her monograph (I thought it was a comic, but hey) 'A Child's Life and Other Stories', and I'm fairly impressed with that. It (and this film as well) entails subject matter of the edgy kind, about a talented girl growing up in an unstable setting.
Bel Powley was twenty-two years old while doing the role of the fifteen years old Minnie Goetze, though I would have estimated her to be about eighteen. In any case, it doesn't really get in the way of the story and what it wants to get across. Powley is charismatic enough, and the rest of the cast keep up pretty well, though Christopher Meloni felt a little out of place for this role somehow.
The animations that pop up a lot of the time reminded me of the terrific film 'American splendor', but I'm guessing that Ralph Bakshi was (one of?) the first to actually have done this...?
This is a good depiction of the confusing and difficult life of a troubled teen girl who is confronted with lots of irresponsible adults and other adolescent issues and is made to find her own way.
A big 8 out of 10.
Bel Powley was twenty-two years old while doing the role of the fifteen years old Minnie Goetze, though I would have estimated her to be about eighteen. In any case, it doesn't really get in the way of the story and what it wants to get across. Powley is charismatic enough, and the rest of the cast keep up pretty well, though Christopher Meloni felt a little out of place for this role somehow.
The animations that pop up a lot of the time reminded me of the terrific film 'American splendor', but I'm guessing that Ralph Bakshi was (one of?) the first to actually have done this...?
This is a good depiction of the confusing and difficult life of a troubled teen girl who is confronted with lots of irresponsible adults and other adolescent issues and is made to find her own way.
A big 8 out of 10.
