'The Starling Girl' charts the sexual awakening and startling downfall of a 17-year-old girl, who relishes expressing herself through dance in a fundamentalist Christian community. The director and star break down its powerful themes for beastobsessed:
, the excellent Emily Brontë biopic that found a creative interpretation of our literary heroine romping through the moors, high on drugs and gradually finding her voice.the excellent, nuanced debut film from director Laurel Parmet, which charts the sexual awakening and startling downfall of a 17-year-old girl named Jem, who relishes expressing herself through dance in her fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky.
In one of the movie’s first scenes, Jem weeps bitterly in self-admonishment after a fellow churchgoer points out that her bra is visible through her shirt. Jem quickly becomes enamored with Owen, a youth pastor several years her senior played by Lewis Pullman, who sweeps back into town on the heels of a mission trip.In turn, the audience is just as seduced as she is by his scruffy charm and conspiratorial in-jokes, and moments later, repelled by the clearly unacceptable power imbalance between the two.
“I didn’t want to make a film that was condescending, or mocking people in these communities,” Parmet said. “The film is not to blaspheme God. It’s really more to show the complex sides of faith and, and to suggest that there are many ways to connect with God. It’s about how God can live in Jem’s desires, and in her actions.”
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