Carey Mulligan stars in Emerald Fennell's startling debut feature about a young woman confronting the traumas of her past
Promising is indeed the word for Emerald Fennell in the wake of her startling debut feature as a writer-director with Starting with what initially looks like a commonplace story of a thirtysomething woman who needs to get her act together and then taking it to entirely unexpected extremes dramatically and thematically, the British writer-director-actress shows real nerve and skill both as a storyteller and commentator on contemporary dynamics between women and men.
Chapter I involves Cassie’s encounter with Madison , a former friend and classmate now married to a wealthy guy who, it seems, might have had something to do with why Cassie dropped out of med school. Matters become more sinister in Chapter II when Cassie returns to her old school for a confrontation with the dean , who occasioned the girl’s departure from academia.
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