‘Girl Picture’ Film Review: Finnish Coming-of-Age Film Captures the Mood of Teenage Life
Huji filter, with music-video aesthetics and styling (consider Mimmi’s sleek, bleached eyebrows, for instance). But the screenplay by Daniela Hakulinen and Ilona Ahti is full of nuance and room to breathe. These girls are figuring out who they are, and the script is smart enough to know they won’t have answers to those questions after the third Friday night.The girls’ conversations feel open and earnest, their jokes smug and immature the way only teens’ jokes are.