Never Been Kissed
Insecure Josie gets the chance to become a reporter but has to go undercover as a teenager at high school. She reverts back to her loser loner geek teenage self at first but in changing the way she looks she finds her way into the 'cool' crowd, after her brother also enrolls trying to relive his own school glory days. She's the new girl but its more of a flashback horror as she was bullied to tears all the time. This is more of a second chance story but for the sake of the theme, Josie is the new girl at school even though she's 25 and actually a reporter.
Tomboy
Céline Sciamma's second feature film about 10 year old tomboy Laure who's family moves to a new town and she passes herself off as a boy. She becomes close to another girl and is accepted into the local group of boys, but her family don't know she's is pretending to be a boy. I have't seen the whole film (someone deleted it off the TV drive so I only saw the beginning) but what I saw, just like her first feature, Water Lillies, Sciamma has a talent for telling intimate emotional stories exploring identity. I really need to see the rest!!!
Daydream Nation
As a big fan of Kat Dennings (wish she was in more and I'm so glad Two Broke Girls ended, that was annoying) this straight to DVD in the UK was something I had to watch. Caroline moves to a small town with her father sometime after her mother dies. She make enemies of the other girls quite quickly who are jealous of city girl persona and starts an affair with a teacher. After the affair ends badly due to the teacher who is self absorbed and still hung up on his ex-girlfriend, Caroline begins a proper more meaningful relationship with peer Thurston who had fallen for her when she first arrived. The film is oddlt put together, mixed with dream like sequences and flashbacks as well as voiceover from Caroline. There is also a murder mystery in the background of the main characters' stories which comes to a weird end with the climax of the film. Its odd but I love it.
