Wicked Little Letters (2023)
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Anjana Vasan
Synopsis:
In Littlehampton during the 1920s, a community falls prey to poison pen letters, which all save a woman police officer consider to be the work of a rumbustious and foul-mouthed Irish single mum.
Review:
Fitfully amusing and swift-moving satire of British manners, muddied by the modern tendency to cast actors of colour anachronistically. The makers perhaps overestimate the laughter to be had from barrages of Saxon smut, but the film makes a case for the liberating power of the 'f-word' in general, and the timeliness of woman power in the eviscerated society of the post-WWI period in particular.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Anjana Vasan
Synopsis:
In Littlehampton during the 1920s, a community falls prey to poison pen letters, which all save a woman police officer consider to be the work of a rumbustious and foul-mouthed Irish single mum.
Review:
Fitfully amusing and swift-moving satire of British manners, muddied by the modern tendency to cast actors of colour anachronistically. The makers perhaps overestimate the laughter to be had from barrages of Saxon smut, but the film makes a case for the liberating power of the 'f-word' in general, and the timeliness of woman power in the eviscerated society of the post-WWI period in particular.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Anjana Vasan
Synopsis:
In Littlehampton during the 1920s, a community falls prey to poison pen letters, which all save a woman police officer consider to be the work of a rumbustious and foul-mouthed Irish single mum.
Review:
Fitfully amusing and swift-moving satire of British manners, muddied by the modern tendency to cast actors of colour anachronistically. The makers perhaps overestimate the laughter to be had from barrages of Saxon smut, but the film makes a case for the liberating power of the 'f-word' in general, and the timeliness of woman power in the eviscerated society of the post-WWI period in particular.