2023 · drama · coming-of-age
The Starling Girl
Directed by Laurel Parmet1h 56m2023
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Our read: The Starling Girl (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- intimate
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