Your phone lights up. It's a group chat with two of your closest friends, cheering you on after you just asked for advice on a risky text to your crush. Then, the conversation turns to something else.

But “Brides” is first and foremost an examination of teenage female friendship in all its giddy, sometimes thorny complexity — a less head-turning pitch, perhaps, but the film is richer for it.

Enchanting take on a beloved children's classic.