“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is 10! How One of Cinema’s Most Honest Coming–of–Age Films Came Together

By Jessica Herndon In writer-director Marielle Heller’s feature debut, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, a scene opens with titular teen Minnie (Bel Powley) and her mom’s man, the much older Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), laying side-by-side post-coital. As Monroe looks through Minnie’s sketchbook, he takes in the intricate cartoonish drawings that are a window into […]

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