When Daisy Ridley (Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Marsh King's Daughter, the Star Wars sequel trilogy) last appeared on screen in Young Woman and the Sea earlier this year, she was literally and figuratively swimming for her life. She's no longer swimming or anywhere near a large body of water in her latest film, Magpie, but her character, Anette, isn't far from drowning metaphorically if not in real -- or rather, reel -- life. As scripted with surprising, not entirely unwelcome, bluntness by screenwriter Tom Bateman's (Ridley's real-life husband), Anette fails into a familiar category, the woman on the verge of a public and/or private breakdown, of letting slip the thin veneer of societal norms, asserting her singular agency, and acting/reacting against those norms,...
MAGPIE Review: Daisy Ridley Delivers Knockout Performance in Marital Neo-Noir
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When Daisy Ridley (Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Marsh King's Daughter, the Star Wars sequel trilogy) last appeared on screen in Young Woman and the Sea earlier this year, she was literally and figuratively swimming for her life. She's no longer swimming or anywhere near a large body of water in her latest film, Magpie, but her character, Anette, isn't far from drowning metaphorically if not in real -- or rather, reel -- life. As scripted with surprising, not entirely unwelcome, bluntness by screenwriter Tom Bateman's (Ridley's real-life husband), Anette fails into a familiar category, the woman on the verge of a public and/or private breakdown, of letting slip the thin veneer of societal norms, asserting her singular agency, and acting/reacting against those norms,...
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