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The Associated Press This image released by Focus Features shows Carey Mulligan in a scene from the film "Promising Young Woman." (Focus Features via AP) Is it a #MeToo-era revenge thriller? A 21st-century “Fatal Attraction”? A candy-colored feminist polemic, to strains of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? A black comedy? A comic tragedy? None of the above — and all of the above. Which is to say: a film as bracingly original as Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” defies labels. Here’s a couple good adjectives, though: Startling — the only way to describe Fennell’s visi...

Carey Mulligan in a scene from the film 'Promising Young Woman.' (Focus Features via AP) Published December 31. 2020 4:38PM | Updated December 31. 2020 4:51PM By JOCELYN NOVECK, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit Is it a #MeToo-era revenge thriller? A 21st-century “Fatal Attraction”? A candy-colored feminist polemic, to strains of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? A black comedy? A comic tragedy? None of the above — and all of the above. Which is to say: a film as bracingly original as Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman" defies la...

The Atlantic Promising Young Woman Sets a Ravishing Trap Emerald Fennell’s debut movie is a revenge thriller explicitly designed to subvert assumptions about femininity and serious works of art. There’s a trick at the core of Promising Young Woman, a ravishing, lethal revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan that marks the directorial debut of the writer and actor Emerald Fennell. The film’s visual style is intoxicatingly extra—part Barbie DreamHouse, part Instagram aesthetic, part David LaChapelle music video. Much of it is defined by a coding of color and texture: pinks and blues, ...

A young woman, seemingly very drunk, is taken home by a young man purporting to protect her from other, more predatory men. Back at his place he is immediately all over her, even as she is unable to provide consent or defend herself. Suddenly she sits up, actually quite sober, very lucid and pointed

A young woman, seemingly very drunk, is taken home by a young man purporting to protect her from other, more predatory men. Back at his place he is immediately all over her, even as she is unable to provide consent or defend herself. Suddenly she sits up, actually quite sober, very lucid and pointed