Writer-director Emerald Fennell’s debut feature, “Promising Young Woman,” drew an exuberant response at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday night.
The film, which will be released by Focus Features on April 17, is provocative — and will perhaps be divisive, particularly its ending.
It’s a perfect talker for the #MeToo era.It’s best for audiences to see “Promising Young Woman” cold, but the basic plot is that Carey Mulligan plays a 30-year-old woman named Cassie who lives with her parents, and works in a café.
She has dropped out of medical school for reasons that become clear as the plot unfolds.
But what audiences see immediately is that Cassie’s side gig is going out to bars and appearing so drunk that a man will take her home — but to say what she does once they do would be a spoiler.
(The movie’s tagline is “Take
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