A Girl's Own Story

1984
15
27m

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Geraldine Haywood, Marian Knight, and Gabrielle Shornegg in A Girl's Own Story (1984)

The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.

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6.5/10

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- 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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7/10

early Campion short

Three girls are sexually curious Beatles fans. It's a black and white thirty minute short. It's early in the career of director Jane Campion. It's definitely edgy in its subject matter right from the beginning as the teen girls look at a drawing of the penis. The most daring part is portraying the girls with all the curiosity of real teenagers. There is a dangerous energy about this film. The stories are a little jagged. They need more connective tissue and better flow. The dinner scene is compelling and the cat play scene is unforgettable. I would do away with the music video at the end but I can excuse it as experimental. Apparently, Nicole Kidman at 14 rejected the role because the material is too explicit. This is definitely intriguing for Campion fans.

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Nov 17, 2019
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A 14-year-old Nicole Kidman was offered a role in the film, after Jane Campion discovered her at a drama school. This film would have been Kidman's first professional acting, but dropped out because she found the material too explicit. Campion and Kidman would later collaborate on numerous projects, and Kidman once performed a kissing scene from this film at an award show, with Naomi Watts, to state how much she regretted turning this film down.