A young teenage lass, having been led down a garden path that's not for her, discovers the vibrations that will turn her into a women, with her own choices, on her own terms. Brilliantly performed and relevant, an overflowing salad bowl of comical and christpy metaphorical hypocrisy. 19 out of 40 found this helpful.
Another of writer/director Karen Maine‘s short films adapted to feature-length (her previous effort Obvious Child was made into a Jenny Slate-led feature in 2014), Yes, God, Yes is an honest – at times, almost brutally so – but consistently amusing comedy-drama hybrid detailing the sexual awakening and reckoning of a Midwest teenager who2. It’s Authentic. You’re bound to relate to at least one aspect of this film. This coming-of-age narrative has all the awkward, embarrassing, cringingness of growing up, plus some.
Similar to last year’s inclusive comedy Blockers–which proved teen girls deserve their own kind of high school sex comedy like the boys have enjoyed for years–Yes, God, Yes continues to evolve the genre while remaining completely grounded in its complexities and contradictions. Obvious Child co-writer Karen Maine’s directorial debut is a witty comedy with nearly5t51.
