Starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, the film is based on a true story about a series of obscene missives that scandalized a small Sussex town in the early 1920s, critic Sean Burns reviews.
A lesson I learned too late in life is that when you’re done venting your spleen in an angry email, it’s always best to hit the “DELETE” key instead of “SEND.” This bit of advice could have saved a whole lot of trouble for the anonymous scribe seen in “Wicked Little Letters,” a jaunty British import based on a true story about a series of obscene missives that scandalized a small Sussex town in the early 1920s.
Olivia Colman stars as Edith Swan, a pious spinster who’s been on the receiving end of some impressively filthy, unsigned letters as of late. The only unwed daughter still living at home with her casually oppressive parents , Edith’s a well-meaning pill who lords over the local Christian Women’s Whist Club and has no idea that even her closest friends consider her kind of a bummer to be around.
“Wicked Little Letters” isn’t much of a mystery. But the movie wisely gets that revelation out of the way early on, with director Thea Sharrock focusing instead on the societal factors and suffocating decorum that breed scandals like this one. Theof the “The Littlehampton Letters” is much meaner than the one told in the movie, which extends a sympathetic ear to pretty much everyone involved, save for Spall’s abusive patriarch.
One should never underestimate the entertainment value of prim and proper old biddies saying swears. Edith and Rose have nothing in common save for trying to get along in a world run by exceedingly stupid men, a frustration that cries out for the catharsis of four-letter words. It’s the same plight suffered by Vasan’s Officer Moss, instructed by her superiors to introduce herself as “Woman Police Officer Moss.
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