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Shirley review – Elisabeth Moss gets under a horror writer’s skin – The Guardian
As a fictionalised version of real-life author Shirley Jackson, Moss is satisfyingly cantankerous and contemptuous, but the film’s early menace fizzles out
If you can imagine that nice young couple Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes from Rosemarys Baby showing up at the house belonging to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton from Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and staying as house guests until their baby is born well, you still wont have much of an idea as to what this intriguing, frustrating film is like. It is acted with bravura and the sort of stormy histrionics and whisky hangovers enjoyed by 60s American campus couples indulging in drunken dinner parties…
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