How To Build A Girl was released just last week, and Alfie Allen is already a firm fan favourite. With Beanie Feldstein, Cleo, Dónal Finn, Paddy Considine. John forgives her, and says that while they may not be in a relationship anytime soon, he is happy to be her friend. The story concludes with Dolly vowing to reinvent herself once again and throw away all of the aspects of herself that she had grown to hate, and making the decision to move to London to work on her journalism full-time. Lily Allen – Elizabeth Taylor She lived in a Wolverhampton council house, won a writing competition and ended up working for Melody Maker as a 16 year old rock journalist. Johanna dreams of escaping her life to become a writer, and finds comfort in speaking with the portraits of her idols covering her bedroom wall. We drink LOADS together and my interview reads a bit like a love letter. Sue Perkins- Emily Bronte Free. How To Build A Girl 2020 Amazon Prime Directed by Coky Giedroyc Written by Caitlin Moran Based on How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran Music by Oli Julian CAST Beanie Feldstein - Johanna Morrigan, aka Dolly Wilde Alfie Allen - John Kite, pop singer Paddy Considine - Pat Morrigan, her dad Sarah Solemani - … Johanna is an intellectually-inclined teenager, living with her Dad, who is still pining for his lost music career, and  her Mum, who’s just had “afterthought’ twins … “afterthought” is a personal reference. Moran herself wrote the screenplay, which crackles with wit and heart and honesty. In this film, Johanna becomes a journalist even younger for D & ME which would be Disc and Music Echo. She writes a piece on self-harm, and is hired by The Face magazine to write her own column, "Building a Girl". Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? The film is due to be released in 2020. Here, a bedroom wall plastered with cultural icons like Sigmund Freud and Sylvia Plath (all played by celebrities, including Allen’s sister Lily and Giedroyc’s sister Mel) comes alive with a string of “you go, girl!” platitudes. The unreleased third novel in the trilogy is due to be called How to Change the World.[1]. When she gets her first assignment, she looks at her closet and heavily sighs that she has, “Nothing to wear for who I need to be.” So she trades in her school uniform, oversize plaid shirts and brown locks for some Little Mermaid-red hair, a top hat, fishnets and a brand new pen name: Dolly Wilde. Crushing on a boy who sings sad songs…also like a teenager. Learn how your comment data is processed. When her swoony, dewy-eyed profile of Welsh crooner John Kite (Alfie Allen, perfectly sweet and sensitive) is roundly mocked by her editors, she turns to critical savagery. (Uh, oh, OFF THE RECORD? Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Johanna goes to a party with her coworkers, where she accepts a full-time position at D&ME, but overhears them badmouthing her. Recovering at the hospital, she reconciles with her family. But when her too-earnest writing gets mocked again by her snarky co-workers, she constructs a newer-new model of herself. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. But perhaps this film will give her that chance. Jameela Jamil – Cleopatra “How to Build a Girl,” an IFC Films release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “for sexual content, language throughout and some teen drinking.” Running time: 102 minutes. A moral rot starts to set in. The Social Worker has just left. I just knew her. Laurie Kynaston as her brother Krissi, Beanie Feldstein as Johanna. The rock background will be more natural to her … her dad was tour accountant for Guns ‘n’ Roses. When her swoony, dewy-eyed profile of Welsh crooner John Kite (Alfie Allen, perfectly sweet and sensitive) is roundly mocked by her editors, she turns to critical savagery. I would describe the film in a sentence as Almost Famous meets The Grimleys. MPAA Definition of R: Restricted. Dir: Coky Giedroyc. Lionsgate will distribute in the United Kingdom. How To Build A Girl. Since the film released, plenty of fans have taken to Twitter to heap praise on his performance and, in particular, his singing. How to Build a Girl, then, may mark the closing chapter of her onscreen coming of age. Unleashing a tirade against their smugness and negativity, she quits and returns home to find John has called about her article, ending their friendship. Those who are young and running headfirst into the future tend to see the world without walls. How to Build a Girl is a 2019 coming-of-age comedy film directed by Coky Giedroyc, from a screenplay by Caitlin Moran, based on her novel of the same name. [9], Principal photography began on 16 July 2018. She writes a girly gushy fan review and gets sacked. Returning home, she writes a glowing feature on John, which her editor dismisses as the work of a teenage girl with a crush, and she is fired. Sixteen-year-old Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) lives a romantic and exciting life, at least in her imagination. Finally, Kenny calls again and Dolly returns to London. [3] The film was released in the United States on 8 May 2020 by IFC Films and in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2020 by Lionsgate. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Now a scathing but popular critic, she is able to support her family with her writing income. Two years later and Johanna has become Dolly Wilde, and sends one music review a day to the Disc & Music Echo.