Daphne **** (2017, Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) – Movie Review 

There are laughs, there is drama, there is romance and there is sex, but Daphne is a bit of a tough, gruelling movie. They have certainly taken the fun out of it.

However, Emily Beecham is tremendous in a hard-to-pull-off role as Daphne, an alienated and alienating 31-year-old London woman on the verge. And Geraldine James is superb, too, as her uncomprehending mother in remission from cancer.

It is very well written by Nico Mensinga and very well filmed by director Peter Mackie Burns in an imaginative and exciting piece of grown-up film-making.

[Spoiler alert] There is no resolution to Daphne’s story, and no happy ending for her, but, for once, just this once maybe, that is good too.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Movie Review 

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