WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023) dir. Thea Sharrock

Olivia Colman as Edith Swan WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023) dir. Thea Sharrock

Jessie Buckley as Rose Gooding & Anjana Vasan as Gladys Moss WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023) dir. Thea Sharrock

Me Before You (2016)

Me before You (2016) dir. Thea Sharrock

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Nel 1922, una scapestrata irlandese che vive a Littlehampton piccola città sulla costa britannica, viene fatta oggetto di feroci maldicenze a causa di una serie di deliranti e feroci lettere anonime ricevute in gran quantità da una appassita zitella della cittadina. Naturalmente alla fine, dinnanzi al tribunale, l’autrice delle missive non risulterà essere l’indiziata dalla vita libertina, ma la vittima delle stesse. La regista Thea Sharrock poteva dircelo prima così risparmiavamo i soldi del biglietto del cinema. Da dimenticare, anzi già dimenticato…

The Beautiful Game (2024) Review

The story of Vinny and how joining the England team for the Homeless World Cup would challenge him as a person and really highlight the power of football for people around the world. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Beautiful Game (2024) Review

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Wicked Little Letters (2024) review

I’d love to receive a rude foul-mouthed letter through the post. I’d have a hoot reading it. People in the 1920s took things too personally. Then again, people take things too personally nowadays also. I guess nothing has changed then.

Plot: When people in Littlehampton, including conservative local Edith, begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.

In the vain of the recent Banshees of Inisherin, yet again there is foul mouthed disagreement between the neighbouring common folk on the British Isles. Ironic indeed it is that the English culture is both built on good manners with the ‘gentleman’ ideology having originated from here, and at the same time it is not hard to imagine a person throwing the F-bomb at any given moment or in general succumb to crude profanities. As such, I would like to tip my hat to the British public for succeeding at both being the most polite and rude society at the same time. And with Wicked Little Letters, you can expect that exact abundant share of cussing and effing, with the letters themselves featuring some very entertaining playful insults. That being said, though in the trailers this was marketed as a comedy, the jokes take a back-seat for the most part and what we have instead is a mystery tale, only instead of a whodunnit it’s a who-wrote-it.

This story is truly captivating as you try and guess who is the one behind these obscene letters, and additionally the main characters are all given many layers to them that I never felt bored. As stated, though there are some funny moments here and there, I would not say this is a particularly hilarious film, but more so a drama with an interesting plot and some solid performances to boat. Again, the mystery was really engaging throughout, and aside of some pacing issues with the movie getting too slow at times, I found myself invested at all times.

Olivia Colman is great. I mean she’s always been great, ever since Peep Show, but now even as an Academy Award winning actress she never gives a lazy performance. Her character Edith is very complex and there’s a lot going on with her inner struggles, and Colman managed to really showcase the awkward eccentricities in this role, and as always I was impressed. Jessie Buckley on top form also as the expressive Rose, and she’s absolutely eclectic however I do think she was a bit too similar to her rowdy single mum role in Wild Rose. Anjana Vasan was amusingly deadpan as the woman cop fighting the case, and Timothy Spall was truly despicable and horrid as Edith’s father, really exhibiting the controlling and demented nature of his character, and pushing forward the feminist message of the movie.

Wicked Little Letters is a simple and enjoyable little British film, that is in no way groundbreaking, but for an easy Saturday evening watch it’s perfectly entertaining, and though the jokes are more of a miss than a hit, the central mystery and performances elevate this to a suitably watchful experience.

Overall score: 6/10

Me Before You (2016, Thea Sharrock)

01/01/2024

Me Before You is a 2016 film directed by Thea Sharrock.

After discovering that Will has made a deal with his parents, in which he will give himself six more months and then go to the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland to end his life, Lou sets out to prove to Will that his life is still worth living, while Will will push Lou to "broaden her horizons" and believe in herself and the opportunities that life can offer her.

At the end of the film Lou is in Paris, reading a letter from Will who tells her that he has engraved her in his heart and that he thought of giving her a push to live her life as she deserves, happy and economically fulfilled, leaving her access to a current account.

In 2016 it had its Italian premiere at the Giffoni Film Festival on 21 July and there was a national premiere on 17 August.

Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters    [trailer]

When people in Littlehampton begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.

The characters are not particularly subtle but they are portrayed by first-rate British actors which makes it more interesting. Who doesn't enjoy listening to Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman having a swearing contest.

Especially Buckley is a lot of fun. Anjana Vasan as Gladys Moss also left a memorable impression.

Side note, apparently the information provided on the text insert at the end about the real Rose and Edith is factually incorrect. Which makes the insert rather pointless and leaves a bit of a bitter aftertaste.

"Wicked Little Letters"

The deliciously vulgar “Wicked Little Letters” is a foul-mouthed, mild-mannered comedy that brings a farcical letter writing scandal to a 1920s English seaside town. Based on a true story, this is a tale of misogyny, hypocrisy, repression, and female rage against overly restrictive and discriminatory societal norms. Director Thea Sharrock and screenwriter Jonny Sweet don’t break a lot of new…

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Kleine schmutzige BriefeJahr: 2023 Genre: Comedy / History / Mystery Regie: Thea Sharrock Hauptrollen: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Lolly Adefope, Jason Watkins, Hugh Skinner, Eileen Atkins, Anjana Vasan, Alisha Weir, Joanna Scanlan, Malachi Kirby … Filmbeschreibung: Mehr als den Heimatort – das beschauliche Küstenstädtchen Littlehampton im Süden Englands – haben…

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Me before You (2016) dir. Thea Sharrock