Lady VENGEANCE
“Every week I go to a club I act like I’m too drunk to stand And every week a nice guy comes over to see if I’m OK…”
Once in a blue moon a film comes along with a premise so exquisite and simple that it’s surprising no one’s ever thought about it before – but one that’s also so morally complex that audiences will already be arguing about it even while the final credits are rolling. Directed by 34-year-old Brit Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman is a dark superhero movie where the hero has no superpowers but the ability to shame. At the same time, it’s a clever, funny and engaging film that takes familiar movie tropes and turns them so far inside out that by the end you won’t know if you’ve just seen a truly scary romcom or a very funny horror.
Key to its charm is Carey Mulligan, who plays Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas. Cassie still lives with her parents at home in the suburbs of LA and works day shifts at a laid-back coffee shop. She’s a mousey, underachieving woman who dropped out of college and never thought to drop back in, but by night she has an alter ego. Wearing a variety of disguises – office girl, club girl, hipster – she trawls the city’s bars posing as a
