New Zealand writer-director Paloma Schneideman makes her feature debut with the Jane Campion-backed drama Big Girls Don't Cry. The film stars newcomer Ani Palmer as 14-year-old Sid, who becomes obsessed with the older teens in her community over the course of her school summer holidays.
Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor also star.
"Somewhere, in some patch of bush in some country, there’s a girl doing something she doesn’t want to do, just to be accepted by people she doesn’t even like," says Schneideman. "The film holds up a mirror to that time, not to moralise, but to acknowledge it: it was messy, confusing, joyful and painful."
Big Girls Don't Cry is in UK/ROI cinemas from November 27th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
It’s the summer holidays in rural New Zealand, and fourteen-year-old Sid has nothing to fill them. Her father has checked out, and her only window onto a bigger life is a borrowed MSN account. Online and off, she watches the older teens who seem to move through the world so easily, and tries on their attitudes like stolen clothes. What she feels for them is part envy, part something she doesn’t yet have the words for.
