Review How to Build a Girl (2019)

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The novel charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.

 

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Coky Giedroyc, a stalwart director of British TV for many years, jumps to features with this quirky coming of age story of teenager Johanna Morrigan (“Lady Bird” scene-stealer Beanie Feldstein), a young woman who reinvents herself as fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer Dolly Wilde. She moves to London and gets a job as a music critic in the hope of saving her poverty-stricken family in Wolverhampton. Emma Thompson, Chris O’Dowd, Paddy Considine and Frank Dillane co-star in the film which is based on Caitlin Moran’s novel which Moran and John Niven are adapting.

 

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How to Build a Girl (2019) - IMDb

How to Build a Girl: Directed by Coky Giedroyc. With Beanie Feldstein, Cleo, Dónal Finn, Paddy Considine. A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.

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