In Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel of the same name, the woman with a morbidly empty existence and a miserable relationship with her life is vocal about the gory bits of it all. The same Eileen is more of an enigma in the 2023 movie adaptation by William Oldroyd, where the layers of her insipid lifestyle are ruffled by her effervescent desires to break free. Thomasin McKenzie’s lead in Eileen seems to have internalized the quiet chaos that’d brew within someone like Eileen, only to explode when touched by Anne Hathaway’s glamorous Rebecca.
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1960s Massachusetts was neither the right time nor the right place for Eileen. For someone with the kind of instinctive imagination that’d shock even those with a strong stomach, 24-year-old Eileen simply didn’t belong in the kind of job that she had and didn’t deserve to...
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens In The Film?
1960s Massachusetts was neither the right time nor the right place for Eileen. For someone with the kind of instinctive imagination that’d shock even those with a strong stomach, 24-year-old Eileen simply didn’t belong in the kind of job that she had and didn’t deserve to...
- 1/9/2024
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Neon releases the film in limited theaters on Friday, December 1, with expansion to follow on Friday, December 8.
In the first scene of “Eileen,” the protagonist stakes out in her car on a dreary winter lakefront lovers’ lane in the Boston outskirts. As another couple makes out in a backseat of the next car, Eileen watches, glowering lustily, and grabs a handful of muddy snow, shoves it down her pants, and masturbates.
The rest of “Lady Macbeth” director William Oldroyd’s second feature never quite matches the giddy perversity of that image, but no matter, because this stylish 1960s-set noir adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh’s mean and pungent novel of the same name is a dark treat throughout. Thomasin McKenzie, playing the title character, and Anne Hathaway, playing the alluring blonde-headed woman that seemingly drops from the sky and into her life,...
In the first scene of “Eileen,” the protagonist stakes out in her car on a dreary winter lakefront lovers’ lane in the Boston outskirts. As another couple makes out in a backseat of the next car, Eileen watches, glowering lustily, and grabs a handful of muddy snow, shoves it down her pants, and masturbates.
The rest of “Lady Macbeth” director William Oldroyd’s second feature never quite matches the giddy perversity of that image, but no matter, because this stylish 1960s-set noir adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh’s mean and pungent novel of the same name is a dark treat throughout. Thomasin McKenzie, playing the title character, and Anne Hathaway, playing the alluring blonde-headed woman that seemingly drops from the sky and into her life,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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