Eileen​

Wednesday 19 November at 7.30pm

William Oldroyd | USA/UK | 2023 | 98 mins | R16 child sexual abuse themes, violence, cruelty, sexual material, suicide & offensive language

Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway star in William Oldroyd’s neo-noir follow-up to Lady Macbeth about a young secretary who is dazzled by a glamorous colleague in ’60s New England.

“A shy prison guard falls for the facility’s glamorous new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd’s intoxicating adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s psychosexual thriller.

Oldroyd’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth centres once again on a young woman with unruly desires. Eileen’s days pass with listless fantasies of sex and suicide, until Rebecca sets her world alight. As Rebecca, Anne Hathaway’s megawatt charisma is showcased to thrilling effect, while Ari Wegner’s cinematography creates a pungent, pulpy atmosphere that intensifies as the relationship between the women hurtles towards a shocking conclusion.”

– Rowan Woods, London Film Festival 2023

“Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s 2016 first feature, the blisteringly indecorous Victorian tragedy Lady Macbeth, will know not to expect anything ordinary from his long-awaited follow-up. But even with those expectations in mind, what a strange and spellbinding psychological thriller he has woven out of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel, Eileen, which shares with the British director’s debut a contagious fascination with complicated women subject to dark impulses. Rippling with sly humor and a bold command of the tropes of classic Hitchcockian suspense, this is a twisty and beguiling original, led by contrasting but expertly synced performances from Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway.”

​– David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter