MOVIE REVIEW: Coming-of-age drama The Starling Girl looks inside the quiet oppression of a fundamentalist community.
is added to that roster. Scanlen is no stranger to difficult, nuanced parts, and Jem Starling is perhaps her biggest balancing act yet – the eldest daughter of a deeply fundamentalist Christian family who finds herself under the spell of her youth pastor, Owen .holds up a mirror to these religious communities well. Mere months before she turns 18, the Starling family is desperate to set up Jem with their church pastor’s son, Ben , younger brother to Owen.
Laurel Parmet’s debut is delicate, often sitting in the moment, letting Scanlen’s performance shine in a tale that’s so grim. Lingering moments with Jem swaying to the music on an iPod or lying in the grass and staring at the sky create an intimate relationship with her, engulfing the film in a melancholy tone that is never sickening. The complexity of paralleling Starling’s intimate relationship with Owen and the mental health spiral of her father – fueled by grief and regret – is poignant.
Perhaps the most delusional is Owen’s wife, Misty , who volunteers to oversee Jem’s dance choreography, picking it apart in a twisted way to prove her superiority and power in the situation by embarrassing Jem, breaking apart her confidence by picking apart the one thing Jem is good at and passionate about. It’s a tactic that works, influencing Jem to resort to teenage outbursts like keying her car.
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