Extra Geography Review — 'A Confident Debut'
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Extra Geography review — 'A confident debut'
The Charli XCX lyric, “It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl,” is a perfect descriptor for the core ethos of Molly Manners’ charmingly offbeat directorial debut. Focusing on the graduation from girlhood to womanhood, Extra Geography joins the growing canon of British films that take teenage girlhood seriously, like Rocks and Last Swim, but Manners’ film offers a fresh take on friends growing up and apart. Based on Rose Tremain’s 2007 short s…
Extra Geography – Film Review
By Genevieve Dammery The world of a teenage girl is rarely a straightforward one. Your friends can feel more significant than almost anything else in your life; every minor humiliation becomes catastrophic, and the prospect of adulthood seems impossibly distant but urgently close. Molly Manners’ Extra Geography captures this period with a combination of sharp […]
Review: Extra Geography charts the choppy waters of teenage friendship
By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan The dominant and best feature of Extra Geography is the performances of the two leading actors, Galaxie Clear and Marnie Duggan. They play Minna and Flic, two 15-year-old best friends attending a girls’ boarding school in England. They wonder what it will be like to fall in love when they […]
Extra Geography review – a delightfully heightened take on girlhood
Molly Manners’s witty coming-of-age tale follows two schoolgirls who turn falling in love with their Geography teacher into a summer project. A teen girl’s best friend is more important than her first kiss and while few would willingly admit to this simple truth, it governs the world of girlhood as we know it. Admiration, rivalry and erotic ambivalence colour the pages of Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna’s (Galaxie Clear) yearbook at an all-all gir…
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