"A Girl's Own Story" is an award-winning short film from Australia. This one was made back in 1986, so it had its 30th anniversary last year and it is still somewhat known today because writer and director Jane Campion went on to win an Oscar later in her career. It is a black-and-white movie which is of course a creative decision as basically every movie back in the 1980s had already color. It runs for roughly 25 minutes and is an early, but not very early career effort by Campion. The actors and actresses in here are not really well-known and most of them ended their careers a long time ago, some of them even did not appear in any other film before or after this one. It is basically a look into the lives of three girls and we get to watch their every day struggles with boys, parents and each other of course too. I personally felt they were all interchangeable to be honest and not a single one of them ended up memorable in my opinion unfortunately. The directing by Campion is sometimes pretty decent, but the story is just not on a level where I would give this one a thumbs-up. I also usually like black-and-white films and even from that perspective this ended up extremely forgettable. Watch something else instead unless you are a Campion completionist.
Review of A Girl's Own Story
