Promising Young Woman: crime comedy starring Carey Mulligan as a femme fatale who takes revenge on men who take advantage of women in need.
Plot and background
Cassie (Carey Mulligan) had the world wide open. As a medical student, her loved ones assumed a successful career. Nothing could shake her. But when one of her best friends commits suicide, her world is rocked.
She drops out of college, starts working as a barista and lives in her parents’ house. But at night she begins to lead a kind of double life, seeking revenge for the unatoned guilt of her past. Her victims are men (Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse) whom she meets in a bar. While she pretends to be drunk with them, the men pose as supposed saviors in need, only to exploit her later. But not with Cassie: she holds a mirror up to them and vows revenge.
When she meets Ryan (Bo Burnham), a former fellow student, she learns more details about her friend’s death. Instead of closure, Cassie becomes even angrier and searches for answers.
Carey Mulligan settles scores with the male world in the trailer for “Promising Young Woman “
“Promising Young Woman” background, cast, theatrical release
Director and screenwriter Emerald Fennell’s career has shown a steep upward curve in the last five years alone. Starting out as an actress in series like “Call the Midwife” and “The Crown,” she proved as showrunner of “Killing Eve” that there was more to her than the beautiful blonde actress. “Promising Young Woman” marks her debut feature, and her script for the film landed on Hollywood’s Best Unfilmed Ideas list in 2018.
As “Promising Young Woman,” her leading lady was quickly found in Oscar contender Carey Mulligan (“Suffragette”), with the rest of the ensemble gracing names like Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Coolidge, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Chris Lowell, Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival back in January 2020, critics* praised the debut as being in tune with the pulse of the times. While the corona pandemic is responsible for the delayed theatrical release, film fans can mark their calendars for August 19, 2021, when “Promising Young Woman” opens in German theaters. The FSK rated the film for ages 16 and up.
“Promising Young Woman” in the 2021 Oscar race
Five nominations have been received by the contemporary crime comedy “Promising Young Woman” at the 2021 Academy Awards.While Carey Mulligan enters the race for an acting award for the second time, director Emerald Fennell is only the seventh woman in Oscar history to receive a Best Director nomination. In the end, Fennell is happy to receive the award for Best Original Screenplay.
See all the winners at the 2021 Oscars in the video:
