Anna Kendrick explores the damage of codependency in drama 'Alice, Darling,' the directorial debut of Mary Nighy.
In ‘Alice, Darling,’ the actor and producer drew on her own emotionally abusive relationship to render the experience with remarkable fidelity.about what the story means to her personally, saying she had emerged from an experience not unlike Alice’s not long before the script came to her. Her performance convincingly conveys the symptoms; her shortness of breath, subtle shrinking, facial fragility all ring true.
First-time director Mary Nighy spends time with her characters, letting those dynamics emerge. She lets the camera drink in the differences between their big-city home environs and the placidity of their woody, lakeside getaway. Despite the change in locale, of course, the rot persists: Even in this idyll, there’s the specter of the missing girl, just as beneath the happy front Alice presents, supports are giving way.
“Alice, Darling” may be harmed in the public sphere by a disingenuous promotional campaign touting it as a “taut thriller” and threatening “shattering vengeance” by the boyfriend. Apart from one sequence tied to the missing girl and the persistent stress of witnessing how damaged Alice is, the actual experience of the film is not characterized by “thriller” elements. This isn’t “
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