It scored five Oscar nominations and won one of ’em for Best Original Screenplay: now, viewers who missed Promising Young Woman in cinemas back in 2020 can finally meet Cassie (Carey Mulligan) for the first time.
Promising Young Woman is available to watch on Prime Video from October 7, your first chance to check out this celebrated revenge thriller on a streaming service.
In our review, Craig Mathieson applauded Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut as “a film that scythes through the normalised standards of rape culture”, continuing to say that, “as a distillation of rage it’s both memorable and illuminating.”
Memorable indeed: if you’ve already seen Promising Young Woman, its Instagram-friendly, pastel vision of #MeToo retribution has likely stuck with you. If not, check out the trailer below for an introduction to the film’s protagonist.
Cassie is not just out to punish the rapist who caused her best friend’s unspecified death. She’s also after his sympathisers, his enablers, any cogs in the corrupt system that let him go unpunished.
“What would you have me do, ruin a young man’s life?”, Connie Britton asks as the dean of the university that failed to hold the abuser accountable. Mulligan just laughs and tosses her hair…but the context beneath that laugh ought to make Britton shiver.
With a shocking ending and Bo Burnham as its too-nice-to-be-true love interest, Promising Young Woman might zip straight to the top of your Prime Video watchlist—we promise it’ll provoke some interesting discussion amongst whoever you’re watching with.
