How to Build a Girl

Greetings again from the darkness. British writer Caitlin Moran has adapted her own 2014 semi-autobiographical novel-memoir for the screen, because who better to write about the coming-of-age of a talented outcast than that talented outcast herself?

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It was the 'Surprise Film ' at DIFF in Dublin tonight.

I'll be honest, I already wasn't a fan of Caitln Moran's origin before I tried reading the book on which this film is based, and I got about two chapters into it before realising it wasn't going to change my mind. So when this turned out to be the 'surprise film' I'd pre-booked a ticket for at a recent festival, I wasn't expecting much.

Expected something rough, wasn't bad. She did a great accent, I was listening carefully for any hiccups in it and nothing too bad.

I absolutely LOVE Beanie Feldstein and she's just perfect as Johanna, she really got in the role and nailed it. "How to build a girl" is a nice movie to watch in your chill time.

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.

I read the books before seeing the movie and I think this adaption of the first (out of two) books is great and exactly what I had hoped it to be. It's entertaining, it's funny, it's quirky.

I knew nothing about this movie going into it. It's a very smug film that continuously pats itself on the back for being so smug.

Caitlin Moran's novel (who also wrote the screenplay) 'How To Build a Girl' tells the story of teenager Johanna Morrigan's (Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart) journey as she reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde. Yesterday, a teenager in search of her own identity today, a sex-positive wild child with an infamous look, and trash talking the finest artists of her era for her new job as a critic in London, to help out her financially struggling family in Wolverhampton.