Start the week with a film: In ‘Wicked Little Letters’, the joys of not minding your language
Thea Sharrock’s cheerfully profane comedy can rented on streaming platforms.
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Wicked Little Letters stars heavy-hitting British talent, including Olivia Colman, Jesse Buckley and Timothy Spall – and profanity. Cussing – copious, inventive, glorious – is not just the trigger of events in the movie but its very soul.
Thea Sharrock’s 2023 production can be rented from BookMyShow Stream, Apple TV+, Prime Video, YouTube Movies and Google Play. Wicked Little Letters is a comic version of Henri Georges-Clouzot’s Le Corbeau (1943), in which anonymous mail causes havoc in a village. In Sharrock’s film, set in 1920 and inspired by an actual incident, the target of salty missives is a single person rather than the entire town: the deeply devout and unmarried Edith (Colman).
For weeks, explicit letters have been arriving at Edith’s doorstep, accusing her of ungodly acts and worse. The immediate suspect is her freethinking neighbour Rose (Buckley). Rose not only has a daughter without a husband in sight but also a Black lover. Rose actively practises invective as much as Edith despises it.
The scandal get serious enough for the police to get involved. Indian-origin constable Gladys (Anjana Vasan) finds herself in a situation not unlike Rose. Treated with contempt because of her race and gender, this outlier nevertheless sets out to unearth the identity of the nasty letter writer.
Sharrock’s comedy...
