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Shirley (2020)

Biography | Drama | Mystery
Rayting:   6.1/10 10K votes
Country: USA
Language: English
Release date: September 17, 2020

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

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mbrcf 5 September 2020

This film is, quite ironically as Michael Stuhlbarg's character puts in one of the most vicious lines, both "derivative" and "terrifically competent". It contains decent performances, employs a brilliant score and uses a very smart camera techniques to tells its story. But if you go deep in its core, it's just modern day Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and although Elizabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg are two of the best character actors working today, they're sadly no match for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

My take from this film was that director Josephine Decker tries her best to make use of her directing skills to elevate this rather straight-forward, conventional story to something else, to make it a surreal and Lynchian piece of art and she succeds to some degree, shifting this to be a puzzle like, dreamesque film that requires multiple viewings to unravel and solve it completely. The thing is, however, that I'm not sure the pay off is worth the time and attention I'll need to dedicate.

13SecondFilmReviews 2 May 2020

Fmovies: But the filmmakers decided to make this film anyway despite a flawed script. Dismal directing and over-the-top performances. This film is so damn boring unless you are interested in looking at close-ups of Elizabeth Moss without makeup emoting strange faces at the camera in scene after scene. Just didn't work.

SnobReviews 11 June 2020

"Shirley" benefits from a harrowing lead performance from Elisabeth Moss and an acute sense of storytelling, but I don't get all the hype surrounding the film. . In this drama inspired by a true story; Shirley Jackson, a famous horror writer, finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple. . Elisabeth Moss is a force and you can't deny that fact, and I really love that "Shirley" is a film featuring strong female leads, a female director and writer. Although, I don't agree with all the positive response this film is receiving. It's not a bad film but it definitely requires a lot of your attention and I don't think it's all it's meant to be. "Shirley" is very much an intriguing story with great performances but the outcome isn't as great as you'd expect. . Follow @snobmedia for all reviews!

jdesando 23 June 2020

Shirley fmovies. In the early 1960's, without cellphones to distract their enclosed academic environment, Bennington English professor Stanley Hymen (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his genius fiction writer wife, Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss), take in an academic couple, Fred (Logan Lerman), Stanley's new teaching assistant, and his wife, Rose (Odessa Young). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is in the air of this literary icon biopic as booze works its magic on the older couple, who no longer need much to invigorate them than bottles of gin. Psychosexual tension abounds.

Shirley is the name of the film, and academic angst is the game.

This fictional take is based on Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell and adapted by Sarah Gubbins. Whether or not Jackson will publish her scary stories is really just a McGuffin in this dark tale of sex and power in the outposts of the academy. She labors over a true story about Paula, a co-ed who vanished on campus.

In a time of female repression, Rose works her way around Stanley, becoming "little wifey" (Betty Friedan had not yet arrived). Fred, well, he's handsome enough to be busy with co-eds and working his way into a position in this prestigious department while the camera takes to roving at a frenetic pace.

As ambitions begin to collide, cinematographer Sturla Brandth sometimes too quickly moves the camera among them with a shadowing that seems to discourage our learning too much, too close. Rose and Fred capture the gothic ambivalence and danger of the household as they assess for Shirley about her famous short story "The Lottery": "That's creepy," says Fred; "It's terrific," says Shirley. True of the household itself.

Although this domestic drama is tightly wound like the little house it is set in, much is said about marriage, status, words, the creative process, and rivalry than first appears in the rancor and suspicions. Put your thinking cap on; class is in session, and it happens to be fun.

aburgan 8 June 2020

Very slow and monotonous. An absolute waste of time. Nothing in the least bit interesting or compelling.

dorrioconnor 6 June 2020

I think Moss watched the hours over and over one Sunday afternoon and mimicked Kidman performance. Unnecessary because she talented enough to give her own take. She just didn't. Long, drawn out and wanna be pretentious. Movie doesn't say anything. I really wanted to like it, just couldn't.

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