The Girls (2021)
Genre : Romance
Runtime : 9M
Director : Tabitha Arthur
Synopsis
Awkward and flirty Jewelisa has love on the brain and nothing to lose... Only, she is about to lose her biggest secret as her sister stumbles across her hidden romance. Jewelisa tries to sneak out. Her clean exit is thwarted, when she is caught by her God fearing mother, who shows no restraint in questioning Jewelisa’s birth control choices and commitment to faith. Despite her sister’s loaded hints, hilarious miscommunication continues to ensue, until their family dynamic is shaken in a delightfully unpredictable way. (NZIFF 2021)
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.
This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig's schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics. However, this one specifically focuses on the coming-of-age aspects, to an extent that it also touches on delicate issues such as paedophilia.
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