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 at her fingertips. 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 university, starts working as a barista and lives in her parents’ house. But at night she begins to lead a kind of double life and seeks 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, the men pose as supposed saviours in need, only to take advantage of her later. But not with Cassie: she holds up a mirror to them and swears 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 takes a swipe at the male world in the trailer for “Promising Young Woman “
“Promising Young Woman” – background, cast, cinema release
Director and screenwriter Emerald Fennell’s career has shown a steep upward curve in the last five years alone. Starting as an actress in series like “Call the Midwife” and “The Crown”, she proved as showrunner of “Killing Eve” that there is 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”), the rest of the ensemble graces names like Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Coolidge, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Chris Lowell, Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Already premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 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 19 August 2021, when “Promising Young Woman” opens in German cinemas. The FSK rated the film from the age of 16.
“Promising Young Woman” in the 2021 Oscar race
Five nominations have been received by contemporary crime comedy “Promising Young Woman” at the 2021 Oscars.While Carey Mulligan enters the race for a second time for an acting award, director Emerald Fennell is only the seventh woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Director. In the end, Fennell is happy about the award for Best Original Screenplay.
