Synopsis
The Starling Girl (2023) is a quiet, unsettling drama you can watch online on iFILM. Writer-director Laurel Parmet's debut feature runs 116 minutes and stars Eliza Scanlen alongside Lewis Pullman in a story set inside a tightly controlled Christian fundamentalist community.
Jem Starling is seventeen and has never known any life outside the congregation's rules — who she can talk to, what she can read, what she's allowed to want. When the youth pastor Owen returns to the church, something shifts. He's magnetic, attentive in ways no one else bothers to be, and Jem starts to believe he sees her. The film tracks what happens next without rushing to a verdict.
Scanlen carries the film on a performance of extraordinary restraint — no melodrama, just a girl learning to name what she feels and then having that naming used against her. Parmet keeps the camera close and the judgment at arm's length, which makes the film harder to shake than a more obvious approach would. Stream The Starling Girl (2023) online on iFILM.
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