Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley) make peculiar friends. Edith is a spinster who looks after her mum and dad in the home where she grew up, attends Church every week, and wouldn’t say “Boo!” to a goose. Rose, her next door neighbour, is a single mum (a widow, she claims), Irish, outspoken and likes a pint. Shortly after they have a falling out Edith starts receiving vulgar and offensive poison pen letters. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who they’re from. And when the anonymous scribe targets other local dignitaries, the whole town is talking…
Based on a scandal that rocked the UK in 1920 (and which, by the by, partly inspired the classic of French cinema, Le Corbeau), Wicked Little Letters is a slyly subversive contribution to the normally staid genre of British costume drama.
It’s a little story, but it’s wicked fun.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
The movie is full of goofy side characters and one-liners, yet elevated occasionally to genuine complexity by Colman and Buckley, who are consistently the best thing about any movie they’re in.
Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
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Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones
UK/France
2023
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Jonny Sweet
Cinematography
Ben Davis BSC
Editor
Melanie Ann Oliver ACE
Original Music
Isobel Waller-Bridge
Production Design
Cristina Casali
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