Overview
Violet is a 17-year-old living in England's rural Isle of Wight and working to help her Polish immigrant single mother. She wants to audition for a singing competition show called Teen Spirit, but her mother refuses to sign the permission forms. Violet then recruits a local drunk who happens to be a former professional opera singer to pose as her manager and coach her. As she advances in the competition, she struggles to stay true to herself.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Max Minghella - Director
Elle Fanning
Agnieszka Grochowska
Details
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 191329106754
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: July 2019
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Fanning did all of her own singing and she does a phenomenal job with the music..." - 03/12/2019 RogerEbert.com
"Rebecca Hall, always a treat, is a gas as an evil female version of Simon Cowell, with sinisterly coiffed hair and a Mephistophelian glint in her eye." - 09/09/2019 Hollywood Reporter
"[Minghella] does a slick, proficient job of staging a youth-trance fable..." - 09/08/2019 Variety
"Max Minghella, in a more than promising debut behind the camera, has a flair for dazzling detours and actions that define character." - 04/09/2019 Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "[Minghella] proves himself to be a canny storyteller, with a flair for spinning a yarn that is at once slick and more than slightly eccentric, simply because the story withholds as much as it reveals." Washington Post
"TEEN SPIRIT, Max Minghella’s sweet and touching directing debut, is both proudly clichéd and refreshingly different." - 04/11/2019 New York Times
"Minghella effectively updates that familiar star-is-born template for an arthouse-minded Instagram generation." - 04/17/2019 A.V. Club
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