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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
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 pointedly asks the simple question, “What are you doing?” That question from its opening moments forms something of a thesis statement for the movie “Promising Young Woman,” a darkly comic, deadly serious story about rape culture, male-female power dynamics and personal accountability set to a can...
Promising Young Woman "I'm not really interested in heroes and villains," says the first-time filmmaker. "I'm really interested in good people doing bad things." On December 25, Emerald Fennell comes out swinging with her enthralling and incendiary first feature film as writer and director, the Certified Fresh Woman. Starring Carey Mulligan as an avenging angel of the #MeToo movement – one who feigns stumbling drunkenness in dark bar corners, waiting to teach a lesson to any so-called “nice guy” who moves in for the kill – the film premiered at Sundance to big laughs, loud gasps, ...
To make some of the dream tracks on that playlist a reality (including Charli XCX's "Boys" and Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind" -- more on that one below), Fennell partnered with Capitol Records, which also brought brand-new songs by Cyn, Fletcher and more young female artists to the table. "Not only did we end up with the stuff that I really wanted, those kind of more iconic moments, but we then had songs just tailor-made for the film," Fennell says. "That's what I loved about soundtracks when I was growing up, was new songs that made me think specifically of the movie. Anton Monsted -- who ...
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer December 23, 2020 Carey Mulligan in “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 vision and execution in this, her...