--- title: Trailer: "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" With Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig description: In the Sundance hit "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," Bel Powley plays Minnie, a teenager exploring her budding sexuality in 1970s San Francisco. canonical: https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-26T20:49:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:20.066Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Trailer for Sundance Favorite "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" og:description: In the Sundance hit "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," Bel Powley plays Minnie, a teenager exploring her budding sexuality in 1970s San Francisco. og:url: https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Trailer for Sundance Favorite "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" twitter:description: In the Sundance hit "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," Bel Powley plays Minnie, a teenager exploring her budding sexuality in 1970s San Francisco. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Trailer for Sundance Favorite _The Diary of a Teenage Girl_  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 26, 2015 8:49 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 26, 2015 8:49 PM CUT “I wonder if anyone loves me that I don’t know about,” wonders Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) in the new trailer for _The Diary of a Teenage Girl_, a coming-of-age tale that won rave reviews at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Minnie has just had sex for the first time, and she is glowing. The world—which for Minnie is San Francisco in the 1970s—looks entirely different than it did the day before, everywhere a hint of the possibility for love. The only potential complication? She slept with her mother’s boyfriend. The film offers the first major role for the British Powley, with the cast rounded out by Kristen Wiig as her mother and Alexander Skarsgård as their shared love interest. The trailer offers a glimpse of the film’s unique visual style, a color palate of 1970s-era yellows and browns blended with animation that appears to pay tribute to the eponymous graphic novel, by Phoebe Gloeckner, from which the film was adapted. In an interview with Sundance, first-time director Marielle Heller explained that the film is not a “morality tale.” “We’re not trying to pass judgment on this relationship or this girl or what she’s going through,” she explained. “We’re just trying to show honestly what it feels like to be a teenage girl.” _The Diary of a Teenage Girl_ hits theaters Aug. 7. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the Trailer for Sundance Favorite The Diary of a Teenage Girl","datePublished":"2015-05-26T20:49:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:20.066Z","description":"“This is for all the girls when they have grown”","url":"https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Movie trailers","Trailers","Kristen Wiig"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3896839/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-trailer/","name":"Watch the Trailer for Sundance Favorite The Diary of a Teenage Girl"}}]}] ```