“It was not, to say the least, a typical situation or easy to make sense of,” says Gloeckner of growing up here ... @sfchronicle.com The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R) opens Friday, Aug. 14 ...

Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze in "The Diary of a Teenage Girl." Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze ... takes viewers along as she reports her observations of growing up in 1970s San Francisco.

The escapades grow darker, too ... Female sexuality has typically been so constrained by the movies that “Diary of a Teenage Girl” feels almost radical in its portrait of empowering promiscuity.

confused and unapologetically horny brain of a girl named Minnie Goetze. “Diary” is a vivid and often shocking story of growing up female in 1976 San Francisco, told with tenderness and humor ...

Writer/director Marielle Heller, in her captivating debut film “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” hits exactly the right tone for a complicated balancing act, and for a film that could very easily ...

"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a movie about young women ... timer Marielle Heller - is the tale of Minnie, a 15-year-old growing up in late-'70s, everything-is-permitted San Francisco.

“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is just that – a coming-of-age story that ... She records a diary on cassette tapes – her growing collection fills a shoebox – and I quickly grew to trust her voice.