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Daphne

2017

Peter Mackie Burns

Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Nathaniel Martello-White ...

6.0

43

Comedy. Drama Daphne, 31, Londoner. Busy days, hectic nights, friends, people, lovers, are all welcome distractions from the constant and creeping feeling that her life is somehow stuck. Too young too settle quietly, too old to keep on messing about without aim. One night, an unexpected event slowly but steadily forces her to confront this existential limbo head on, an start looking very closely at the person she has become.

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Likeable miniature built around a beguiling central performance (...) A low-key but promising first feature"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Beecham is good, but who wants to spend time with this woman? (...) Burns gives us nothing to work with here"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"[Beecham] is alternately appealing and emotionally affecting (...) This is a distinctive, mature piece of work (...) Overall, this is a compelling watch"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s so vivid and disarming precisely because it doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel or deliver its red-haired heroine unto salvation."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"A portrait of a woman unworthy of a portrait (...) It’s hampered by a script that mistakes one-note abrasiveness for complexity"	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It feels progressively genuine, and Beecham’s performance is so fully realized that you start to root for her (...) You forget that it’s a performance"	POS

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