[THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL opens in Akron on Friday September 18th at the Nightlight Cinema.]
Review by Pamela Zoslov
I had a strange feeling while
watching THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL that someone had, in
fact, read my diary and put parts of it onscreen. No, I did not have
an affair with my mother's boyfriend, nor did I do most of the things
Minnie Goetze, the 15-year-old heroine of the movie, did in 1970s San
Francisco. But I did once write a letter to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, the
talented cartoonist who is married to the famous Robert Crumb,
telling her how much I admired and identified with her hilarious
confessional comics.
Aline wrote back to me too, a
friendly and encouraging letter, just as she wrote to Minnie, and
apparently to Minnie's creator, writer and artist Phoebe Gloeckner,
whose 2002 confessional graphic novel is the basis of this film.
Clearly Kominsky-Crumb's work is captivating, and she is really nice
to her fans.
Review by Pamela Zoslov
I had a strange feeling while
watching THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL that someone had, in
fact, read my diary and put parts of it onscreen. No, I did not have
an affair with my mother's boyfriend, nor did I do most of the things
Minnie Goetze, the 15-year-old heroine of the movie, did in 1970s San
Francisco. But I did once write a letter to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, the
talented cartoonist who is married to the famous Robert Crumb,
telling her how much I admired and identified with her hilarious
confessional comics.
Aline wrote back to me too, a
friendly and encouraging letter, just as she wrote to Minnie, and
apparently to Minnie's creator, writer and artist Phoebe Gloeckner,
whose 2002 confessional graphic novel is the basis of this film.
Clearly Kominsky-Crumb's work is captivating, and she is really nice
to her fans.
