The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a film of 2015 directed by Marielle Heller, based on the graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an Account in Words and Pictures of Phoebe Gloeckner. Minnie tells of her tribulations, through expressive drawings and letters painfully honest trust to a recorder. Based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, the film tells Minnie Goetze, a fifteen aspiring cartoonist growing confusion in the seventies in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is pretty typical teenager. Apart from the fact that he goes to bed with the boyfriend of his mother.
On the route of the tenth muse: based on the feature graphic Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller's film was presented to the Italian public at the last edition of the Taormina Film Fest. Impressions by Tosi Siragusa. In the final day of a mediocre festival, the screening was held at 18.00 in room A of the convention center of Taormina of "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," Marielle Heller.
It will take the opportunity, apprestata from this review, for highlight the connotations of a survey appeared more aged of its 61 years, now he relegated to a mere parade of stars and divetti, where the film product, although sometimes excellent or good, is never central (for organizers "primarily"), Tiziana Rocca where a hyper protagonist undisturbed work, chanting the repetitive rhythms with a chant of thanks and an anthology of sponsors, forgetting to be in the Teatro Antico in Taormina, monumental site in state property owned by the Sicilian Region and particularly the Department of Culture and Identity of Sicily.
A Tiziana Rocca who can also get to define the veteran producer, Marina Cicogna, "his supporters", receiving, rightly, a public stigma. A festival where "film" is so in last stage, which ended (at 23.12!) Arena in which a Rupert Everett had excelled, not only physically, on a plethora of starlets - part of the public (which seemed tame) followed outside of their idols, pace the few remaining in the theater during the screening - gazed - feature film (out of competition, very meritorious, and, also awarded as the first film at the Berlin Festival), "600 miles", crowding in front of Hotel Timeo and preventing - as we have learned - for long minutes the outflow of the crowd.
In the review, which has often spoken only in terms of "gossip" forgetting the contents, I would return to this story of an aspiring cartoonist in the US feature film, the drama starring in the well and a well-oiled plot. From the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner emerged Minnie Goetze, just fifteen in San Francisco of the 70s, struggling with her training in the delirious chaos of that period, introspective and original, in rebellious, curious and never satisfied by the universe that surrounds it, which tries to master by recording the results with the precision of an entomologist, also through a diary at times surreal, a Minnie who is able to get to the conclusion that maybe too mature the problem is not whether we are loved.
The mother - beautiful icon - but actually weak and messy, and coveted men - does not realize that her lover is having an affair - initially only sexual - with her daughter and, taking as it is by itself and its drugs, let it go, as long as the environment does not become explosive, making them the first to find the solution to impose the absurd seducer to marry a Minnie madly in love at first and then bitterly disillusioned.
It is the central passion of teenagers to the world of comics and his attempts failed to get into that context that satisfies and that will be professionally on his way. Interpreters Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva, excellent music, photography and scenic setting all signed by directing a high yield give us a colorful world and visionary, who is now irretrievably behind us as likely to be the future of the Taormina Film Festival, which will necessarily find its raison d'etre and divest today's role of a soubrette now on Sunset Boulevard.
According to reports from the BBC, Emma Bunton in its radio show say that at least for the time being nothing will happen at the level of reunion. This does not mean that the reunion is to be considered impossible for now. According to reports from the British tabloid Sun, in 2016 the Spice Girls will come back with a world tour reunion to celebrate 20 years since the release of Wannabe. The pop band that depopulated in the nineties would have made the decision to embark on this task during a secret meeting held in London in July and yet there is a big but, which does not appeal to fans. Posh (Victoria Beckham) will not be the game, because of commitments the management of her fashion brand and the family which could prevent her to join Scary, Sporty, Baby and Ginger.
However, the dish is very rich and despite the package of Victoria have already started negotiations with a number of promoters worldwide, to manage the tour. According to the anonymous source of the Sun there is a strong demand for a reunion of the Spice Girls, especially for the nostalgia factor of the twentieth anniversary of their first release which will fall next summer. Mel B last month flew to London for a secret meeting with the other three girls. They should earn more than 10 million pounds each, in the operation.
The anonymous source also added there between Mel B and Victoria, who is still a close friend of the other girls. But Mel has worked hard to make the reunion happen and had no intention of letting Victoria ruin everything. For a long time they have been faithful to the idea of doing nothing without her because they wanted to be in five, but with the business of the twentieth anniversary they realized it was a steal.
The last performance dates back to 2012, when Mel B, Mel C, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham, the Spice Girls, sang at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.
Now they would be planning to return but not Posh, or Victoria Beckham. According to the British newspaper The Sun , which launched the first news that the British band in the late '90's swept the pop music world, would have a reunion in the works for 20 years after the launch of Wannabe (dated 1996), with a world tour. The Sun quoted a source inside the group that would reveal: "Mel B is already flown to London last month to close the deal with the other three girls. They could earn more than ten million pounds each. She would push on the project.
And if Victoria Beckham already indicated that she does not want to be in the game although posting a picture on Twitter with the hashtag #TBT (Throwback Thursday) usually used when you publish old photos on social, also Emma Bunton, Baby, is shown chilly. From the microphones of her own TV show in the morning Heart London said: If something happens and we decide on something concrete, I will let you know. But it's going nowhere right now. And on Twitter, responding to some fans, she wrote ironically: I have to get back the braids?.
The Spice Girls were a British girl band formed in 1994 in London which marked the collective imagination thanks to a massive commercial success, recording or otherwise, during the second half of the nineties . This is the women's group of the most successful of all time. Are in fact the first girl band in the ranking of the most famous and best-selling of all time with over 75 million records sold and occupied the 32nd position in the ranking of the 100 most famous artists of all time according to All-Time Hot 100 Artists .
The five girls in the group, Geri Halliwell, Melanie C, Victoria Adams, Melanie B and Emma Bunton, realized their single record debut, Wannabe, in 1996. The piece, which remained for seven weeks in the top of the British ranking, launched the group into a successful soon called international phenomenon. The Spice Girls have made in total 4 albums and 11 singles. Under the guidance of their manager, Simon Fuller, the group has largely embraced the world of merchandising, becoming, for this reason, known globally the Spice Girls have lent their faces to Pepsi, Polaroid and Sony, among others .
David Sinclair, music critic English, said that Scary, Sporty, Posh, Ginger and Baby were members of a band best known globally since the days of John, Ringo, Paul and George, and that the group was a phenomenon social that changed popular music and music culture. Having topped the charts British and world, promoted the slogan Power to the girls among the young and even shot a film that has dug the box office, between 1999 and 2001 the Spice Girls They have launched projects soloists, parallel to the efforts of the group.
Geri Halliwell left the band in May 1998 , during a challenging tour worldwide. The meeting of the group, wanted to give a final farewell to the fans, in 2007 , saw the participation of the entire original lineup, however, engaged in a celebratory tour of 47 dates, including Europe , Canada and the United States.
The group formed in 1994 , when Bob Herbert and his son Chris put an ad in the British newspaper The Stage , because interested in creating an all-female pop group, on the model of the boyband by storm at the time, like Take That . In March 1994 , the two put the following announcement: "are you street smart, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance?" ('You are open-minded, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance?')
Hundreds of girls meet the announcement, but are only five choices: Geri Halliwell , Melanie C , Melanie B , Victoria Adams and Michelle Stephenson . They thus form a group called Touch and go to live together in a house in Maidenhead . Within two months the Touch record various demo at Trinity Studios Wolking . Subsequently, however, Michelle decides to leave the group to misunderstandings with other components or, as many say, to continue his studies.
Immediately after the departure of Stephenson, trying at once a replacement and, after some research, he chooses the eighteen Emma Bunton , at the suggestion of Victoria. The break with the Herbert takes place in March 1995 : disappointed by the attitude towards them and disagree on taxes artistic choices, the five left the Heart Management who had discovered them. Cater to Elliot Kennedy and join the 19 Management of Simon Fuller.
During the summer of that year, the girls are turning to several record labels , looking for one that publish their work, and in September 1995 signed a contract with Virgin Records. Since that time, begin to write lyrics and record the songs from their debut album , the first to break through, the summer next.
At the same time the dissolution of the group, took place in 2001 , but never made official, the girls embark on solo careers. As of 2005 , rumors began to circulate about a possible meeting of the group. At the Live 8 , Bob Geldof had invited the group to participate in the event, but Melanie B had denied his willingness to television commitments. In July 2007 , the Spice were also invited to the Concert for Diana , in memory of Princess Diana Spencer , but on this occasion the group does not take part, because of the pregnancy of Emma Bunton . In the same period, however, we come to an agreement and 28 June 2007 is announced the meeting.
Waiting for the new album, fans of the group organized a mobilization on the Internet , under the name Stop to the Top, which aims to bring the No. 1 on the British single Stop , released in in 1998, the only one not to have reached the top spot in the standings. Fans from around the world, in the week from 2 to 8 July, downloading the song to all the download sites, which are counted along with the physical sales to generate the list British. The initiative, however, failed, bringing the individual only to the number 78 position.
On 9 November 2007, it is published the first collection of the Spice Girls, simply titled Greatest Hits, containing the most successful songs of the group and two new songs: Voodoo and Headlines (Friendship Never Ends), single from the album and released in download November 5. The song is a ballad, accompanied by a video that was censored by the BBC, as portrayed in the five singers attitudes sexy.
The single, released a few days later in the shops, was combined with the representation of charity Children in Need and all proceeds were donated to charity. The reception of the fans was still very warm: the single fact not only failed to match the record of the previous, but has placed only eleventh in the individual chart British, unable even to enter the top ten. Best thing happened album, platinum in the UK and in Australia (where Spice reached the summit for the first time) and gold in the US, Canada, Brazil and New Zealand , selling 2 million worldwide of copies. In Italy, the single has reached the second position (the highest peak in the world together with Spain), while the album has positioned the first week to the twentieth position.
To accompany the release of the album, the Spice Girls have performed on a world tour, called The Return of the Spice Girls , which started on December 2 2007 from Vancouver and has revealed the true triumph of this meeting. However, the official website of the girls has issued, on 1 February 2008 , a statement in which it was branched off the decision to bring forward the end of the tour to 28 February, which effectively deletes the dates of South America and Asia , and adding new ones in the US and in Great Britain.
The statement said: We are really sorry not to be able to come and see you this time. All we have unavoidable commitments in our lives right now, but who knows what might happen in the future. The The Return of the Spice Girls tour , initially consisting of 11 dates, thanks to high demand from the public through the official website trying to earn a ticket, has been extended until they touch some 47 dates, whose tickets have gone literally to steal, to the point of establishing a new record thanks to the first London leg became sold out in just 38 seconds, and it has become the second most lucrative tour of 2007.
During the Christmas season, the Spice Girls have started to dress even the role of testimonial , this time the famous English chain supermarket Tesco . Outputs are two versions of the spot, where the Spice, in keeping Christmas and familiar format, play their roles with spontaneity and with a good dose of self-irony. In March 2008 , Melanie C and Emma have withdrawn, the ceremony Capitol Awards , the prize as icons of all time. April 2, 2008 , after weeks of inactivity, the band's official website has been updated with the news that will not be published no DVD of the world tour. This news has led some sites, such as Facebook , Bebo and YouTube , to sign a petition for world distribution of the DVD version. June 3, 2008 , Mel B, Emma and Geri attended the Glamour Award for collect the prize as best group of the year.
On 19 September 2008 they received the award for Best Concert of 2008 Back to Vodafone Live Music Awards, beating bands like Led Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols . The award was received by Emma Bunton. The Return of the Spice Girls was also honored in the category Top Boxscore of the 2008 Billboard Touring Awards. Yet another award was won by the group at the BRIT Awards in 2010 , when it was given them victory in the special category Best Performance at the BRIT Awards the last thirty years.
On 21 January 2010, Judy Craymer , creator of the musical and film Mamma Mia , based on the songs of ABBA , has revealed it is working on a musical about the Spice Girls titled Viva forever , as the title of one of the songs of the group. The musical was conceived not as a celebration of the five girls, but proposes a new story based on the songs of the group and with a cast that will be decided by the five singers.
The screenplay was entrusted to Jennifer Saunders, who has previously collaborated with the band. The official presentation took place June 26, 2012 at the London St Pancras hotel (where he turned the video Wannabe ), while the first of the show on 11 December 2012. At both events was attended by the five girls of the band.
On 12 August 2012 the Spice Girls gather to sing at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games which were held in London. The girls will perform with two of their biggest hits: Wannabe and Spice Up Your Life , in front of over a billion viewers worldwide telecast.
Ruth (Kalki Koechlin), an English girl of 20, has consistently find his Indian father, mysteriously gone when she was 5 years old. This meant that the struggle only in the intricacies of the Indian administration to renew his tourist visa which does not allow it to work. But he did not dissuade provided to be used as a masseuse in a small room in Bombay where his regular customers can enjoy their "final digital" charged 1000 rupees. On the side of his private life, she is decked out Prashant (Prashant Prakash), a lousy boyfriend cocaine addict who only thinks rush on it between two appointments and shady fiddling with Chittiappa (Gulshan Devaiah), a small kannada boss.
Clinging to a few words in a letter he sent to him, Ruth short private investigators trying to trace this evanescent father. His sometimes sinister universe has the chance to be enlightened by the paternal kindness of the faithful Diwakar ( Naseeruddin Shah ) or friendly neutrality coworkers whose receptionist lounge (Puja Sarup) babbling all day on the phone. But on the occasion of a "reversal of fortune" Prashant, Ruth remains Chittiappa all his savings acquired the force of the wrist, and the desperate search for her father, she did not doubt the still loves ...
That Girl in Yellow Boots is released in theaters in September 2011 after being featured in several festivals last year. Shot in ten days digital handheld camera and exclusively on location, it's a completely atypical minimalist film production Bombay. Nor is anything like previous productions Anurag Kashyap who is credited as director. This may explain why some whisper that it was made in fact by Kalki Koechlin, co-author of the screenplay with Anurag Kashyap and his wife to the city.
The slow pace, centering on a female character, gravity and ultimately unfathomable loneliness could discuss the new German wave and particularly the cinema Margarethe von Trotta. But it is a modern Indian film we are given to see. We are in Mumbai today and That Girl in Yellow Boots does not allow us to forget.
There are not, strictly speaking, narrative progression in That Girl in Yellow Boots. There is a series of scenes that the order for most actually quite unimportant. Of course the quest for idealized father behind the film and direct it to a conclusion we guess cathartic. But it is a slice of life that we are invited Ruth and Kalki Koechlin inhabits stunningly. It is all scenes and almost all plans. We only see the world through his eyes and all the characters who inhabit his world exist only by it.
All the actors, even those whose role is the most insignificant, are perfectly in place and very convincing. Prashant Prakash as Gulshan Devaiah we will review in the unfortunate Hate Story , composed of characters as odious as it is desirable. Naseeruddin Shah offers a welcome counterpoint to the darkness and mediocrity. It is the only one who sometimes manages to Ruth smile.
Ruth is a strong young woman, beautiful and totally alone operating in a male environment for most repugnant and pitiful. We guess that to better survive and follow his path, it adopted the codes and customs. This makes his transgressions acceptable as the pots of wine offered to officials or "happy ending" of his massages. The film, however, could be taken as a slap by male spectators as it is reasonably impossible to identify without the slightest shame male character. But on reflection, it is perhaps more a bucket of ice water a slap in the face because we are not like that, is not it?
It is also a film where love is impossible. Not because of external constraints like most Bollywood, but because Ruth can not find men to par, just understanding and magnets. In fact, they do not exist in his Bombay to it. In their defense, if we can say it is totally invested in the search for his father and is not ready to open, even Diwakar kindness marks. By Ruth reality is the opposite of what she believes: it seems fragile but it is indestructible, she wants to be loved, but it can not be.
Without seeming to touch it, following this young femmme, with no effect except a few colored filters from time to time, That Girl in Yellow Boots offers a knuckle-fist reflection on the relationship man- woman whose fate is not necessarily unscathed. But it goes further by addressing the topic of the search for the father dreamed. It is more by the unveiling of an unspoken questions as to the parentage. In this respect, the film has many similarities with Paris, Texas Wim Wenders. But where Travis made peace with himself before facing the truth is furious and desperate Ruth comes to it. And while Jane moves us deeply, the final explanation of That Girl in Yellow Boots leaves us just as Ruth, petrified.
That Girl in Yellow Boots contains two songs that are not choreographed and involved the severity of the film. But beyond that, the soundtrack contains several modern dissonant passages that stick wonderfully to the images. At times, the viola Benedict Taylor joined the guitar of Ry Cooder. One could perhaps regrettable that these magic moments, like silences, are not more numerous for us to breathe. But the picked format (the film lasts 1:42) probably does not lend itself.
The couple Kalki Koechlin / Anurag Kashyap has composed with That Girl in Yellow Boots exceptional work. It is certainly not for everyone, does not contain colored or songs of romantic love story, but it remains very long in the heart of those who saw it.
If I can make a suggestion at the end of this column, see the film allows to realize details that had been missed in the first viewing. Then realizes that understands or does not know Ruth, and it is all the more heartbreaking.
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