This little 2004 Australian gem gave Abbie Cornish her breakout role as Heidi, a precocious sixteen-year-old who, after succumbing to the advances of her mother’s boyfriend, leaves a toxic home environment to create a life for herself in the country. “Somersault”Ĭate Shortland’s poignant debut is one of the most criminally under-seen movies of the past decade. Here are five examples of films that dared to break the mold and show us teenage girls discovering sex - from their point of view. Where does it leave young women when the only onscreen representations they see are filtered through the male gaze? And there are even fewer that treat sex with the same abandon as male-perspective movies. The problem, though, is that there aren’t many. READ MORE: Sex and the Revolutionary Female Perspective in Marielle Heller’s ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’Īs the “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” opens this weekend, we got to thinking about female coming-of-age films.
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