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Elizabeth Moss in Shirley Having chilled us earlier this year with breakout hit The Invisible Man, Elisabeth Moss plays American horror author Shirley Jackson in an interesting non-biopic. Odessa Young and Logan Lerman play Rose and Fred, a young couple expecting a baby who come to live with Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), an academic and Fred’s new boss. As their stay goes on for longer than expected, Rose is asked to do jobs around the house while Shirley works on her new story, a follow up to her wildly successful work The Lottery. Initially cold toward her, Shirley forms a connection with Rose and draws her into her fascination with the recent disappearance of a young woman. However, the writer’s mind games begin to make Rose question everything around her. ....
Last modified on Thu 24 Dec 2020 03.19 EST The review – Shirley Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo During quarantine and its long, unending tail, my mind has often returned to Shirley, the psychodrama from director Josephine Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins that imagines a chapter in the life of the mid-century horror master Shirley Jackson with her signature slippage of sanity. For one thing, the author, played exquisitely by Elisabeth Moss, was agoraphobic, often trapped for months indoors, the weight of anxiety consuming her house like gnarled, enchanted roots. It’s somewhat relatable. But the film’s standout is its slow-burn coda, as Shirley awaits her narcissistic husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman’s (Michael Stuhlbarg), verdict on her latest novel. For nearly three minutes, the camera holds on Moss’s face, as Stanley paces out of the frame and finally, torturously delivers his review: “Your book is brilliant, darling.” ....