Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Alexander Skarsgard is a Teenage Dream

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The first trailer's here for Marielle Heller's marvelous upcoming movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl, adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner's book and starring newcomer Bel Powley and not-so-newcomer (but definitely comer) Alexander Skarsgard, and also Kristen Wiig. Here's my review from back in March when it played the New Directors New Films fest; this movie is very very good and the next six months will have to be a spectacular six months indeed to knock it outta my favorites of 2015. Here's the trailer:
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The trailer treads very very lightly with the underage sexuality stuff but believe you me the movie itself does anything but - in a beautiful refreshing and honest way, of course. Not to mention...

... Skarsgard Crotch centric. At least the poster gets that across. I think it's kinda funny how they barely show Alex in the trailer though while there's tons of the boys Powley's own age in there, while the movie is quite the opposite - I guess it's a hard sell, pushing it as a "romance" between a 15 year old girl and thirty-something dude, even if said dude is Alexander Skarsgard. The movie's smart about all of this, of course, but boiling that down to trailer-length is probably impossible and best side-stepped. But I can smell the future outrage from here. The movie is out on August 7th.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When does she scream she was raped?