McKenzie’s accent is a bit wobblier than Hathaway’s, but once you’re over that hump, the pair are thrilling together.
McKenzie plays Eileen as a wide-eyed girl in arrested development who might have been an ingénue if she’d ever had a moment to sparkle.
That’s you, Eileen.
Oldroyd’s cold but keen eye for women pushed to the edge of a nervous breakdown by boorish, violent men meets rich ground here.
Not just Eileen, but Rebecca and several other female characters are not good or angelic women, and yet they’ve clearly bent themselves to fit molds made by men.
Persons:
McKenzie, Eileen, she’d, You’re, Rebecca, Radcliffe, She’s, —, she’s, William Oldroyd, Macbeth, ”, Florence Pugh
Organizations:
Harvard
Locations:
England, Moshfegh