Promising Young Woman
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Adam Brody, Jennifer Coolidge, Clancy Brown, Max Greenfield, Alison Brie
Whatever its flaws,
Promising Young Woman really goes for it, and that makes it thrilling to watch.
The wayward tone of writer/director Emerald Fennell s even-darker-than-it-seems satire can be confounding: Hold up, it s also a romantic comedy? is what I wrote in my notes about halfway through. But it finally becomes clear that the movie s all-over-the-map quality corresponds to the fascinating complexity of its revenge-minded protagonist, who has the same name as Cassandra, the Greek prophet who always uttered the truth but was never believed. Is she, as one character asks, a psycho? Is she a superhero? Is she even real?
Anne Andrus has established a better work-life balance during the pandemic. She has taken to keeping weekends off to spend more time with her 5-year-old child. Photo: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune/TNS
During the seven years she s been running Honey + Rye Bakehouse in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in the United States, Anne Andrus had been running herself ragged.
Last year, just as she d decided to establish better work-life balance, the coronavirus descended. Instead of dialing back, Andrus dove in: coming in to bake at 4 am and then putting out fires all day.
Then came Mother s Day, when the bakery s online ordering system got overloaded.