Comment je suis devenue une jeune femme influente

Original title: How to Build a Girl

2019
18
1h 42m

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6.0/10

5.3K

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Beanie Feldstein in Comment je suis devenue une jeune femme influente (2019)

Based on the best-selling novel by Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, the fast talking music critic.

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A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

5.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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8brindood-1

Lovely heartfelt coming of age movie.

This film really charmed me. Though the main character's accent wandered a little, I forgave it very quickly because the story and the protagonist's journey was really engaging. There are plenty of laughs and heart breaking moments along the way and I left having been thoroughly entertained.

Gordon-11

Really liked it

This film tells a bittersweet coming of age story. I am so glad she finds herself! The protagonist is really engaging, and you just can't help but be drawn to her story. I really liked it.

5gracesiobhan

Why can no one do a Midlands accent?

I love Beanie. But why, in many films and TV shows that are set in and around the Black Country area, do they not cast actors from the same area, or who can at least do the accent? Paddy's accent was OK. But that's it. I'm from Wolverhampton and I was disgusted and cringing throughout the whole film.

Only 5 stars because it was a poor film anyway.

cpj79

Completely miscast.

Having a 27 year old American play a Northern English teens is a complete miscast. Distracted me the entire movie.

5JoBloTheMovieCritic

How to Build a Girl

5/10 - usually Beanie Feldstein doesn't disappoint, but this movie fell flat on most accounts (and don't even get me started on Beanie's accent)

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Trivia
The Morrigan was the Irish goddess of war. She was the main opponent of Cuchulainn and often connected with crows. The novel is semi-autobiographical and this is both a nod to Caitlin Moran's Irish ancestry and a pun on her name.

Goofs
Johanna's first gig is reviewing Manic Street Preachers at "Edwards No.8" in Digbeth, Birmingham. Edwards No.8 did exist and was a music venue, but was located in Ladywood, not Digbeth.

Quotes
[last lines]
Johanna Morrigan: So, what do you do when you've built yourself, only to realize you've built yourself with the wrong things? You rip it up and start again. Build it up and tear it down. Endlessly, repetitively, unceasingly. Invent, invent, invent. What will eventually be you? One day, you'll marvel over what you did. Marvel over how you tried to keep the loud, drunken, laughing, cutting, panicking, unbearably present secret of yourself - when really you were just about as secret as the moon. And as luminous under all those clothes. And how, like all the best quests, you did it all for a girl. You.