Promising Young Woman

film by Fennell [2020]

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Cox

  • Laverne Cox
    In Laverne Cox

    …the films Charlie’s Angels (2019), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Jolt (2021).

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discussed in biography

  • Emerald Fennell
    In Emerald Fennell: Directing career

    …notches for her feature-length film Promising Young Woman, an unsettling story of female revenge. In the film, Carey Mulligan plays a traumatized young woman who plots the ruin of every male sexual predator who crosses her path. The shocking thriller garnered five Academy Award nominations, including for best picture, best…

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femme fatale

  • Ava Gardner
    In femme fatale

    The film Promising Young Woman (2020), addresses rape culture with a femme fatale (Carey Mulligan) who avenges a friend’s assault, sometimes through unnerving means.

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Mulligan

  • Carey Mulligan
    In Carey Mulligan

    …of an inebriated woman in Promising Young Woman (2020) earned her a best-actress Oscar nomination. She next portrayed a widow in Suffolk living on what proves to be a major archaeological find in The Dig (2021).

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