You’ve seen Women Talking, welcome to Women Swearing: Wicked Little Letters, Thea Sharrock’s fantastically funny feature puts Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman together in the filthiest pairing sinc…
moral anarchy and you have the runaway British comedy of the year, a sometimes cry-laughing four-letter smackdown that might well benefit from the awards-season envelope currently being pushed by Yorgos Lanthimos’s Venice-winningThe setting is Littlehampton, Sussex, where Edith Swan lives next door to Irish firebrand Rose Gooding on Western Road. The film opensletter to the Swan house.
Edward thinks the culprit is obvious: Irish neighbour Rose, who must surely be a wrong ’un because she’s a single mother who drinks too much and, perhaps the worse crime of all, has “straggly hair”. The police think so too, and, after her daughter is taken into custody by social services, Rose is arrested and sentenced to two-and-a-half months in a Portsmouth jail .
At the time, Rose’s guilt must have been a no-brainer, but what seems obvious to audiences now is that Rose just has no filter — as she will say later at her trial, “Why would I send a letter when I could justsoon becomes a very British kind of intrigue, with officer Moss as a renegade Miss Marple trying to marshal the local ladies to clear Rose’s name: imagine the heroine of Agatha Christie’sBut plot is not the be-all and end-all here; the best thing about Sharrock’s film is not just Jonny...
Obviously, we can all agree that there’s nothing at all clever about swearing, so we must lay the credit for Sharrock’s film at the doors of its wonderful, mostly female cast. The central pairing of Buckley and Colman is clearly the swear-off of the century, like a home-counties rumble in the jungle, buthas just as much else to recommend it, in supporting performances from Lolly Adefope, Joanna Scanlan and Eileen Atkins.
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