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

Stefanie Azpiazu

Anthony Bregman

Peter Cron

Luke Goebel

Johnny Holland

Jamin O'Brien

William Oldroyd

Nick Emerson

Rori Bergman

Jeanne McCarthy

Gonzalo Cordoba

Michele Munoz

Olga Mill

Anouck Sullivan

Anton Gold

Howard Paar

Tamara Hansen

Colleen LaBaff

Julia Oh

Ollie Madden

Craig Lathrop

Lily Li

Jaclyn McCoubrey

Julieta Gleiser

Lucien Harriot

Ari Wegner

Lewis Goldstein

Richard Reed Parry

Ashley Rae Callahan

Angie Johnson

Danarose Lobue

Josh Acosta

Vic Coram

Amy Lynn

Suzanne Mjartan

Vinny Alfano

Bennett Kerr

Trino Madriz

Zander Metz

Julia Skubisz

Wen-Hsuan Tseng

Bridget Fullan

Chris Barnes

Nic Coccaro

Drew Leary

Taylor Valentine Lupini

Mark Pettograsso

Ashley Pynn

Marc Charbonneau

Pierrot Colonna

Scott DeAngelo

Andre Bonk

Keith DeCristo

Adam DeRezendes

Blake Johnson

Dennis Ly

Jeong Park

Callum Shaw

Peter Symonowicz

Jon Sandin

Christopher Wiezorek

Lowri Best

Pedro Rodrigo Gonzalez

Alexa O'Neill

Alec Styborski

Dann Fink

Karlee Fomalont

Emily Grill

Meredith Jacobson Marciano

Bruce Winant

Dylan Tonken

Rickey Tripp

Brett Heidenreich

Nat Jencks

Jisun Kim

Shoko Kambara

Danielle Guido

Mike Montague

Bryan Gonzalez

Isaac Grnya

Christina Grant

Stella Sensel

Cory Dahn

Sean Williams

Alex Soto

Leslie Bloome

Curtis Henderson

Ryan Collison

Teddy Blanks

Chris White

Thriller

Crime

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

dysfunctional family

alcoholism

femme fatale

film noir

murder

loneliness

female protagonist

accidental death

masturbation

new england

death of mother

alcoholic father

female psychologist

deadbeat dad

daydreaming

aggressive

christmas

1960s

youth correctional facility

anxious

dark

psychological

depressing

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)

Crime has never felt so intoxicating.

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Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Dec 02 2023

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