From visionary director Emerald Fennell ("Killing Eve") comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
- Director: Emerald Fennell
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
- Year: 2020
- Run Time: 01:53:00
- imdb Score: 7.5/10 (15,674 votes)
- Language: English
- Rating: R
- Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown
Anthony Kaufman - SCREEN DAILY
"Director Emerald Fennell complicates matters throughout, toying with our identification by pushing Cassie’s tactics into some uncomfortably nasty places, even as she slowly reveals her motives."
A.A. Dowd - THE A.V. CLUB
"As satire, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN's first two acts are fun but broad: a winky, wildly stylized slice of girl-powered revenge porn. And Mulligan, who’s always given smart, delicately shaded performances in movies like "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "An Education" (she was great in 2018’s underseen "Wildlife") is an entirely different animal here: furious, damaged, ferociously funny."
Leah Greenblatt - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Sunset Film Circle Awards 2020
Best Director, Film and Actress
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Luxembourg City Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Wisconsin Film Festival 2020