Review of Eileen

Eileen (2023)
7/10
Interesting Slow-Burn Psychological Thriller
3 December 2023
This one is going to be polarizing but I enjoyed this one.

It's an interesting psychological character study of a movie with strong direction from William Oldroyd, interesting writing, and good performances from the cast members. Oldroyd's previous movie "Lady Macbeth" was really good and Oldroyd continues to provide strong direction on handling the movie's tone, narrative and the atmosphere throughout. The narrative is interesting as it has some interesting themes and concepts explored within the characters. Although certain narrative concepts weren't the greatest, as a whole, still worked for the most part. The costumes and make-up really help add the feel of the 1960s.

All the performances are great as Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie have great chemistry together. The camerawork is solid and the dialogue is well-written. The characters, while have interesting traits, I wasn't too fully emotionally connected with them and there are some pacing issues that did drag a bit.

Overall, I liked it.
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