Many years later, she started to see it more clearly for what it really was. And I, at the time, didn’t see myself as a victim. I hesitate to call it a relationship even. “When I was a teenager, I had a relationship with an older man.
“It started for me from a personal place,” she says.
“That sort of restraint I think was the real backbone of the filmmaking.” Universal experiencesįor Parmet, inspiration for “The Starling Girl” came out of her own complicated feelings about her own experience as a teen.
