![]() During the faux-drunken night-time sequences, she switches from confused victim to articulate accuser in an electrifying nanosecond. Pulling an outrageous scam on her former college dean (Connie Britton), she burns with forensic fury. Mulligan is blithe and sassy as the child of disappointed parents (low-temperature Clancy Brown and Jennifer Coolidge). ![]() Later, Cassie gets deeper into more complex plots aimed at avenging an old friend raped in medical school. “I never understand why women wear so much make-up,” he says, as such people will. Christopher Mintz-Plasse gets to play the class of oik who pretends to superficial feminism. That opening is already famous and it leads into further variations on a mischievous theme. Who wouldn’t want to see the villains being served their innocent children in a pie? (Don’t worry. The narrative convolutions and unjustified outrages are pleasures in themselves. Such plays allowed the wildest plots and the most absurd coincidences. Despite a reliably strong performance from Alfred Molina, I couldn't believe the lawyer tortured by his defence, years earlier, of an accused rapist, but that may say less about Fennell's screenplay than it does about my view of the American legal profession.įor the most part, the picture succeeds thrillingly as a latter-day variation on the Jacobean revenge tragedy. At times the film does ask too much of the audience's credulity. A number of negative reviews have wondered if the film, which deals with delayed retribution for a college rape, blanks its unseen victim, relies on too much implausible plotting and, in a Grand Guignol ending (about which we’ll say no more), betrays its protagonist and all her imagined supporters. The months of closer attention have also brought some unhappiness its way. Promising Young Woman, originally scheduled for the awards-unfriendly spring of 2020, has steadily built up followers to become a serious contender for best picture at the (finally) imminent Academy Awards. Emerald Fennell’s Fanta-coloured melodrama – or pitch-black comedy? – has profited from the long delay in its release.
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