AliceDarling Review: Anna Kendrick Excels In Piercing, Sensitive Drama
Anna Kendrick might be best known for her comedic and musical roles, but with her latest feature, Alice, Darling, the Oscar-nominated performer reminds viewers she has some seriously impressive dramatic chops. Directed by Mary Nighy, the new film is an intimate, unsettling examination of a woman and the effect her increasingly disturbing relationship has on her life.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY On the surface, Alice has it all: A solid job, two best friends to gab with at wine bars, and a sexy, attentive boyfriend, Simon . However, from the way Alice carefully rehearses what she's going to say to Simon to her tendency to compulsively pull her hair out, it soon becomes clear there's more to the story.
Francis opts to juxtapose Alice's situation with a plot involving a girl who has gone missing in the town where the women go on vacation. When this thread reaches its midpoint, it gets a bit harder to justify. Its inclusion is one of the weaker elements of Alice, Darling. It is perhaps the closest the movie gets to being obvious with the themes it aims to explore. In the end, though, Francis and Nighy manage to stage the plot's resolution in a way that gives a clear, unsettling impact.
Unquestionably, though, Alice, Darling's high point is Kendrick's performance. Most of the actor's best moments come through when Alice is on her own, though she plays off the other cast members well. Kendrick portrays Alice's delicate and anxious fear with impressive deftness, and in the moments where Alice seems to let loose and reconnect with the person she was before, the audience really feels how special those instances truly are.
Alice, Darling knows when its story is done, coming to a close after just an hour and a half. Though this leaves its eponymous heroine's future ambiguous, Nighy leaves viewers with a sense of what will happen to her going forward. In a way, the uncertainty of how Alice will move forward is just as powerful as all the elements that came before.
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