Tag: Carey Mulligan

Saltburn–Class Wounds

Written by Diana Paul on April 1, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

Saltburn is a 2023 highly original indie psychological thriller written, directed, and co-produced by Emerald Fennell (creator of “A Promising Young Woman”, see my March 25,2021 review). A brilliant middle-class Oxford student with few friends (except for one rather sadistic roommate), Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan from “Banshees of Inisherin”) has little appeal with women, but outsized ambitions to be popular with his fellow aristocratic students. A coming-of-age film this is not! Supernaturally handsome Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), befriends Oliver after Oliver...

“Promising Young Woman” –Breaking Over and Over Again

Written by Diana Paul on March 15, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Promising Young Woman” –Breaking Over and Over Again

Promising Young Woman, written and directed by Emerald Fennell, is a revenge thriller on a brutal topic–Don’t let the title mislead you. Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a 30-year old former medical student, is now a barista living with her parents In the opening scene we see a very inebriated Cassie barhopping and wandering the city streets at night. The viewer doesn’t know why this bright and attractive woman is engaged in such risky, dangerous behavior. To say much more about the film’s artistic and courageous story would ruin it. But this is an...

“Suffragette”—Suffering for the Right to Vote

Written by diana on June 3, 2016. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Suffragette”—Suffering for the Right to Vote

This 2015 film about women fighting for the right to vote in England tackles an almost forgotten but nevertheless compelling struggle for women and men alike. Don’t take that right for granted. The suffragette movement in England has received less cinematic attention than in the US [2004 film “Iron Jawed Angels” about the American suffragette Alice Paul] until now, with the release of Suffragette. Suffragette opens outside a London laundry in 1912, where 24-year-old Maud Watts (the talented Carey Mulligan) has worked in squalid conditions as a laundress since she was a child. While delivering...

“The Great Gatsby”–Revisiting an American Classic

Written by diana on May 28, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on “The Great Gatsby”–Revisiting an American Classic

The new version of the F. Scott Fitgerald’s celebrated classic (1925) by Baz Luhrmann (of Moulin Rouge fame) has divided critics. Half of professional movie critics praised the movie, the other half panned it. There will be endless reinterpretations of a novel that has become burdened as a literary icon, the Great American Classic. Mr. Luhrmann’s reverence for the source material is evident. Occasionally he quotes dialogue directly. But he has also made the narrative his own: a wayward, lavish theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Gatsby embodied. For...

Tag: Carey Mulligan

Saltburn–Class Wounds

“Promising Young Woman” –Breaking Over and Over Again

“Suffragette”—Suffering for the Right to Vote

“The Great Gatsby”–Revisiting an American Classic

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