A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Minnie’s inner life, a fantasia of animations appearing Crumb-like around her, is dazzling, and there’s plenty of naked emotion amid the sex, drugs and hand-drawn penises.
Often close to the bone, this exceptional film pulls off something seldom seen in cinema: a document of nascent female sexuality.
This brilliant, provocative, achingly honest and intimate comedy-drama.
Like a distaff US version of Adrian Mole with more sex.
British up-and-comer Bel Powley is outstanding as a girl who comes of age in mid-70s San Francisco in Marielle Heller’s striking debut.
Powley is a marvel and well-supported by the ace cast in a small film that deals with big issues about coming of age.
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