Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2021 by Kalyn Corrigan
When Ernestine Ulmer said “life is uncertain, eat dessert first,” she probably didn’t have poetic justice in mind. But in 2021,
Promising Young Woman writer/director Emerald Fennell dreamed up a world in which Carey Mulligan’s forlorn ultra feminine Cassie is almost constantly chewing on something, whether it be a bag of chips or a darkly sinister plan to eviscerate evil men.
Showcasing a broken heart both beneath her breast and on a golden chain, Cassie carries around the grief of losing her best friend Nina with her everywhere she goes – from her dead end job at the coffee shop to her childhood bedroom in which she still resides to the club every weekend where she pretends to be too drunk to stand. An avenging angel, Cassie lures “nice guys” into taking her home whilst faking intoxication, only to sit straight up stone cold sober the second the good-natured flavor-of-the-week begins undressing her under false pre
Directed by Emerald Fennell.
Starring Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Carey Mulligan, Timothy E Goodwin, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Ali Hart, Bo Burnham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alison Brie and Alfred Molina.
SYNOPSIS:
Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is turning thirty, perpetually single and out every night. Masking her grief through casual encounters and late-night liaisons, her desire to meet the right man has nothing to do with dating.
Some might frame
Promising Young Woman as a feminist revenge thriller designed to leave a bitter after taste. Others might claim it to be a visual diatribe on female empowerment, toxic masculinity and the impersonal nature of relationships. Then there will be those commentators who are enraptured by Cary Mulligan’ Cassandra. A hot mess of vengeance, driven by trauma and ultimately tragic in the Greek sense.
To make some of the dream tracks on that playlist a reality (including Charli XCX s Boys and Paris Hilton s Stars Are Blind more on that one below), Fennell partnered with Capitol Records, which also brought brand-new songs by Cyn, Fletcher and more young female artists to the table. Not only did we end up with the stuff that I really wanted, those kind of more iconic moments, but we then had songs just tailor-made for the film, Fennell says. That s what I loved about soundtracks when I was growing up, was new songs that made me think specifically of the movie. Anton Monsted who worked at Capitol and who s just incredible and who helped shape the soundtrack his first job was Baz Luhrmann s