Wicked Little Letters

[Joolsin]

Saw it last night. Thought it was an excellent film. The cursing that peppers all the way through was hysterical! Olivia Coleman is such a superb actress.

Wanted to go this eve and it was SOLD OUT! Can’t think when that last happened for a film I wanted to see near us!

Saw it today and really enjoyed it.

Also (off topic) @Goddessonahighway I love that song.

As long as you're not squeamish about the - faintly comedic but severe and incessant - swearing.

It's a very British comedy.

Obviously there's a lot of swearing 😁 Would be a good film to watch with your teenage daughter to have discussions afterward about attitudes towards women then and now. I think sex is implied in one scene but nothing explicit.

Thanks for your replies ,no i'm not at all squeamish and i like the idea of it leading to some good conversations so i will take her to see it .

I think a 15 yo would be fine. There is a lot of swearing, but the tone of the film is not threatening, there is a context to the swearing.
It might even possible interesting conversation.
Mainly though it's just really funny! And the ending is very satisfying.

Really good film. Great performances from Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley. Much more to it than some swearing though. Undercurrent of misogyny was fundamental to the story. Plus ca change.

It’s brilliant. Took my mum and we both enjoyed it. Nearly didn’t bother after the Guardian review, so glad we went. It’s an easy watch, relatively short film with plenty of laughs.

I dont think so, there was no evidence that Edith Swan's father was sexist at all. It is a story about classism, and demonstrates that very clearly. I found it quite disturbing. This was real.

This is a true story, and it demonstrates snobbery and classism, the sexism is invented

Hated it. I love Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman and they were both brilliant. But I thought it plodding and predictable and just not funny or otherwise well-done. Nobody else in the cinema was laughing much either. Real damp squib.

Both the Times and Guardian reviewers are men, and both criticised the swearing a lot, while also criticising Olivia Colman for taking a role which was "foul mouthed and unfunny". The Radio Times and Irish Times reviews are similar, both male writers and same criticisms. I find that extraordinary and more than a bit ironic, given the subject of the movie involves men telling women what to think.
I saw it last week, and loved it. I do think its a real womens movie, as in there are real women in it, doing real things like swearing and having sex. Maybe thats what upset the menz.

Beg pardon! You don't think the film was threaded through with rampant sexism?
It's a key theme.

Have you seen the film?

They must have been aright bunch of stuffed shirts at your cinema.

I got so frustrated at the sexism and racism that was clearly evident and commonplace in the 1920's when this was set.

I'm so pleased that I didn't live in that era. I'd probably have been locked up!!

Fab film, we loved it.

Not really. It was in Scotland. I think we just have a different sense of humour and don't always get the small English town pompous vicar/dim policeman/eccentric dowager schtick. Nobody was remotely shocked by it, and there was the odd titter, but it was just a bit ...... well Ok then......

Yes, I have seen the film, and I think the portrayal of the father is deeply unfair - this was a real person and there is no evidence he behaved like this.

What happened was because of snobbery and classism. The sexism has been laid on top of the story to make it more entertaining. Yes, the film is "threaded through with rampant sexism" but that does not mean the events it depicts were. These were real events ,and the lives of real people.

It's hilarious.

Predictable? You know it’s a true story, right? I think they were kind of stuck with the actual plot that happened..

Probably Scottish audience too used to “cunt” being used as punctuation in polite conversation up there.

Disclaimer: I am Scottish.

Yeah same. Also in Scotland. Maybe Scots swear more so the ‘ooh look at the naughty words’ isn’t quite as amusing.

I found it mildly engaging and slightly funny in parts.

There’s a much better Guardian review here now (by a woman).

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/24/wicked-little-letters-review-thea-sharrock-olivia-colman-jessie-buckley-deliciously-sweary-poison-pen-mystery

Saw it yesterday and loved it. Perfect.

DH and I have been calling each other Foxy-Arsed Whores all day, and (between ourselves) accused a Woman who cut us up on the drive home of sucking 10 cocks a week. Minimum.

Saw it today with DH and we both enjoyed it. I love Jessie Buckley, since she was in War and Peace. Thought it was absorbing rather than laugh out loud but liked it. Solid British character actor cast.