A really stupid and deeply unpleasant movie.
I give Thomasin McKenzie some credit for committing 100% to such an unsympathetic character, but man is she gross in this. One scene finds her waking up with vomit smeared all over her face, and leg and armpit shaving has never looked as grotesque as she makes it look in this movie.
There's a twist mid-way through the film that takes it into gothic thriller territory, but it's implausible and deeply dumb. I think the director was kind of going for a dark comedy vibe for a lot of the time, but it never lands.
Anne Hathaway isn't believable for one single second.
It occurred to me to wonder if this is one of those "did the other woman ever exist at all or was it all in her head?" kind of movies, though there's not much in the film to support that reading. And even if it were the case, that in itself is a lazy trope that's been done to death, though Hathaway's character would make a lot more sense as a figment of Eileen's imagination than as an actual human being, and I might have liked Hathaway's performance more.
I wanted to take a shower after watching this movie.
Grade: D+
I give Thomasin McKenzie some credit for committing 100% to such an unsympathetic character, but man is she gross in this. One scene finds her waking up with vomit smeared all over her face, and leg and armpit shaving has never looked as grotesque as she makes it look in this movie.
There's a twist mid-way through the film that takes it into gothic thriller territory, but it's implausible and deeply dumb. I think the director was kind of going for a dark comedy vibe for a lot of the time, but it never lands.
Anne Hathaway isn't believable for one single second.
It occurred to me to wonder if this is one of those "did the other woman ever exist at all or was it all in her head?" kind of movies, though there's not much in the film to support that reading. And even if it were the case, that in itself is a lazy trope that's been done to death, though Hathaway's character would make a lot more sense as a figment of Eileen's imagination than as an actual human being, and I might have liked Hathaway's performance more.
I wanted to take a shower after watching this movie.
Grade: D+