Promising Young Woman

2020 • 113 minutes

À propos de ce film

Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve, the Crown), réalisatrice et scénariste visionnaire, nous livre un thriller féminin militant ! Tout le monde s'entendait pour dire que Cassie (Carey Mulligan) était une jeune femme pleine d'avenir... jusqu'à ce qu'un évènement inattendu ne vienne tout bouleverser. Mais rien dans la vie de Cassie n'est en fait conforme aux apparences : elle est aussi intelligente que rusée, séduisante que calculatrice et mène une double vie dès la nuit tombée.

Notes et avis

Walking into this movie after seeing trailers for it, I thought I was walking into a fairly typical revenge movie. Thankfully it is not that, it's a thoughtful script and the director knew what they were doing playing around with several tropes of the genre. At first I thought the end would get comically bloody, but it went in a different and ultimately more "satisfying" direction. Great performances, beautifully shot and scored (the violin toxic cover is great) and darkly humorous.

Depressing movie........trying to hard to make a statement..why can't we get back to storytelling adventure and scares for the sake of scares. As if life isn't depressing enough we have to watch terrible acting, overplayed people. Trying to hard to make a statement. Terrible ending.......made no sense. Rent the original Godzilla movie and see some real acting....lol

An interesting thriller that takes some great turns as the story goes. The methods of the main character are unconventional to the genre, which makes it all the more captivatimg to see how our protagonist decides to handle things. Also, has a lot more character study-esque content that most other revenge plots I've seen, going into the personal cost of revenge. Warning: you'll either love or hate the end. I've seen no in between.