curated cinema: a little gem from early this year is new on Netflix
2024’s *Wicked Little Letters* is streaming on Netflix in the US and the UK
A cheerfully indecent, gloriously naughty little film from early 2024 has just landed on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic, so if you missed this one in theaters, here’s your chance to catch up with it.
I plan to watch Wicked Little Letters again, in fact: I predicted back in the spring that it might become “a future comfort movie for me,” so time to get going on that. Based on a true story from 1920s England, it gives us a prim and proper “spinster” in Olivia Colman’s Edith, who believes her rowdy, earthy neighbor Rose (Jessie Buckley) is the author of the series of vile, vulgar “poison pen” letters she has been the unfortunate recipient of.
Fashioned as a whodunnit at first, this delightfully sneaky, wonderfully intriguing movie quickly morphs into a feminist exploration of why women keep secrets and still their discontent. Colman and Buckley — screen goddesses both — are a riot butting heads, and the movie overall is funny as hell and bursting with impudent energy.
US: streaming on Netflix; rent/buy at Prime and Apple TV
UK: streaming on Netflix; rent/buy at Prime and Apple TV
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