A gutsy and pertinent debut.
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Carey Mulligan stars in Emerald Fennell s shocking debut feature about a young woman confronting the traumas of her past. Promising is indeed the word for Emerald Fennell in the wake of her startling debut feature as a writer-director with
Promising Young Woman. Starting with what initially looks like a commonplace story of a thirtysomething woman who needs to get her act together and then taking it to entirely unexpected extremes dramatically and thematically, the British writer/director/actress shows real nerve and skill both as a storyteller and commentator on contemporary dynamics between women and men. This Focus Features release will look to stir up some deserved attention commercially and creatively upon its mid-April domestic release.
WHAT IT S ABOUT:
A man and a woman have their work cut out for them as they make separate journeys to a mysterious island off the British coast.
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Cassandra Thomas is a hell of an actress. (Ditto Carey Mulligan, who plays her.) The first time we see her in the deviously coiled revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” she looks about ready to pass out drunk, struggling to steady herself in a club jammed with revelers, onlookers and predators-in-waiting.
It takes commitment to appear this helpless, to stumble down a flight of stairs in heels, one painful step at a time, on the arm of that nice guy who offered to take you home. But the payoff is worth it, for us and presumably for Cassie, who waits until just the right moment after the nice guy has plied her with more booze and slipped off her panties to snap to attention, fully conscious and fully sober. “Hey,” she says, in a voice that could freeze blood. “