The extremes between comedy and trauma are woeful and disorienting. The more she’s tuned out or weighted down by nutty anxiety, the more we, the audience, are squelched from hearing and being inspired by the full gusto potential of Ella. It’s colossally disappointing Ella McCay did not do better by the character the audience needed to root for.
Read MoreFollowing in the transcending footsteps of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, award-winning actress Frances O’Connor makes her feature debut as a writer and director with Emily to blend biographical notes with envisioned dramatic license. Before her acclaim on the printed page, Emily Brontë was a lover, a sister, a daughter, and an independent woman of turmoil and ache. Anchored by a stirring lead performance from Emma Mackay, O’Connor’s emotive film seeks to flesh out that very soul.
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