Thomasin McKenzie

Anne Hathaway

Shea Whigham

Sam Nivola

Marin Ireland

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Tonye Patano

William Hill

Owen Teague

Peter McRobbie

Peter Von Berg

Patrick Noonan

Jefferson White

Alexander Jameson

Patrick Ryan Wood

Gavin K. Barfield

Spencer Barnes

Mason Pettograsso

Mark Havlis

Willie C. Carpenter

Brendan Burke

Julian Gavilanes

Joel Marsh Garland

Louis Vanaria

Lawrence Arancio

Lauren Yaffe

Matt Berman

Ben Kennedy

Myra Thibault

Ottessa Moshfegh

Anouck Sullivan

Johnny Holland

Howard Paar

Luke Goebel

Jamin O'Brien

Colleen LaBaff

William Oldroyd

Rori Bergman

Olga Mill

Anton Gold

Peter Cron

Jeanne McCarthy

Nick Emerson

Michele Munoz

Isaac Grnya

Gonzalo Cordoba

Stefanie Azpiazu

Anthony Bregman

Tamara Hansen

Julia Oh

Ollie Madden

Craig Lathrop

Stella Bouzakis

Jaclyn McCoubrey

Shoko Kambara

Lucien Harriot

Lily Li

Shane Claire Strano

Julieta Gleiser

Lewis Goldstein

Ari Wegner

Richard Reed Parry

Suzanne Mjartan

Mark Pettograsso

Ashley Pynn

Christopher Wiezorek

Lowri Best

Alexa O'Neill

Nic Coccaro

Jeong Park

Andre Bonk

Dennis Ly

Julia Skubisz

Callum Shaw

Alec Styborski

Angie Johnson

Pedro Rodrigo Gonzalez

Emily Grill

Pierrot Colonna

Marc Charbonneau

Jon Sandin

Josh Acosta

Vic Coram

Rickey Tripp

Amy Lynn

Peter Symonowicz

Meredith Jacobson Marciano

Bennett Kerr

Drew Leary

Vinny Alfano

Chris Barnes

Taylor Valentine Lupini

Keith DeCristo

Trino Madriz

Blake Johnson

Ashley Rae Callahan

Zander Metz

Bridget Fullan

Adam DeRezendes

Bruce Winant

Dylan Tonken

Danarose Lobue

Wen Hsuan Tseng

Scott DeAngelo

Dann Fink

Karlee Fomalont

Brett Heidenreich

Nat Jencks

Thriller

Eileen

Likely Story

Film4 Productions

Omniscient Films

Fifth Season

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

prison

sexual abuse

based on novel or book

winter

kidnapping

boston, massachusetts

female friendship

alcoholism

femme fatale

murder

loneliness

female protagonist

accidental death

masturbation

new england

death of mother

alcoholic father

female psychologist

deadbeat dad

daydreaming

christmas

1960s

youth correctional facility

lgbt interest

CinemaSerf

Thomasin McKenzie is quite good as the eponymous, rather timid, prison secretary who lives a rather pedestrian life watching the couples make out in the car-park, or fantasising about a quickie with one of her colleagues, before returning home to her retired cop/dipso father replete with two bottles! The arrival of new psychologist "Rebecca" (Anne Hathaway) injects a little life into her dull routine. This assertive sophisticate takes an interest in "Eileen", they go for a drink - there's even some flirting - before "Rebecca" shares a secret with her new friend that involves a young man in prison accused of the brutal murder of his father, and of just what his mother might know of the crime and it's causes. The first hour is quite intriguing but that sense of anticipation is let down by a last half hour that is really quite undercooked and the denouement, well that is just incomplete - on just about every level. The acting and writing is fine - nothing more, but I left the screening thinking that something was missing. What exactly was the point here? It's a good looking film - effort has certainly gone into the aesthetic but I'm not sure I'm really any the wiser.

Brent Marchant

Rarely have I seen a film as implausible, unfocused and meandering as this second feature outing from director William Oldroyd. After an impressive debut with “Lady Macbeth” (2016), the filmmaker has stumbled seriously in this latest effort, a supposed psychological mystery/thriller that never finds traction and yet somehow manages to go wildly off the rails in the final act. This cinematic misfire examines the relationship that develops between two women who work at a young men’s prison in 1960s small town Massachusetts. Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is a reserved, awkward, often-bullied, sexually repressed administrative assistant, and Rebecca (Anne Hathaway) is the facility’s newly hired, sophisticated, worldly, Harvard-educated psychologist. They quickly strike up a close yet somewhat unlikely bond with less-than-subtle (but apparently never-consummated) sexual overtones, a story thread that seems to be heading somewhere but never does. In large part that’s because the protagonists end up becoming involved in a hare-brained scheme worthy of Lucy and Ethel, only with significant implications, a scenario that comes out of left field and sends the narrative into serious, unexplained head-scratching territory. While the picture features a fine production design, a palette of creative cinematography, and capable Independent Spirit Award-nominated supporting performances by Hathaway and Marin Ireland, there’s not much else here that’s engaging, riveting or worthwhile, elements essential to a good mystery/thriller offering. Whatever the filmmaker was going for here obviously never comes to fruition, thanks to either its poorly composed script or its mishandled execution (or a combination thereof). Indeed, this is one of those films where virtually the entire project truly would have been better off left on the cutting room floor.

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Eileen( 2023)

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Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Dec 02 2023

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