A young woman, seemingly very drunk, is taken home by a young man purporting to protect her from other, more predatory men. People don’t really think that makeup and fashion and stuff are the preserve of serious things, serious cinema, serious people. Emerald Fennell, writer-director of ‘Promising Young Woman’For Mulligan, that similar sense of subversion carried over throughout the film. So did Mulligan really spit in Burnham’s coffee? And I think that’s something that we all feel very familiar with.”A guaranteed conversation-starter, “Promising Young Woman” is a perhaps above all else a bundle of contradictions, just like the character at its center.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 24, 2020 13:02 UTC