My Year of Dicks (2022) | Directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir

A still from the film MY YEAR OF DICKS.
4/5
Sara Gunnarsdóttir’s My Year of Dicks is a very funny, painfully honest coming-of-age short about a teenage girl looking to lose her virginity. The variation in animation styles used throughout the short is absolutely wonderful and helps differentiate each chapter and the different boys she dates over the course of the titular year, with each style perfectly representing the relationship and her own inner state of being. It’s charming, honest, and oh-so-true true to the experiences of growing up (especially in the ’90s) and of what it is to explore your sexuality for the first time.

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Author: Josh Hornbeck

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