This film could inspire a lot of self-examination for thoughtful older teenagers, and might act as a corrective for the dime-a-dozen teenage sex exploitation movies.

One of the cinema's greatest depictions of a father-daughter relationship.

His unorthodox dramatic construction rejects the symmetry of classical plotting, and the narrative has a quirky, self-propelling quality that allows for some astonishing things to happen.

It's a fierce film, brilliantly realistic and tough, and its reticence about right and wrong, its reluctance to judge rather than observe, make it the most wrenchingly honest film about sex to hit the screens since Luna.