There are biopics that make you look up the authors or people involved and when you do, you're let down, oh dang, is that it?

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2020)

The turgid Molly Bloom for example. And then there are biopics so immediately different and a sheer tour de force from script to actor to screen that it makes you dive in to their heads and into the history and it's even more weird and exciting.
Margot Robbie is superb in absolutely every frame and makes Harding a sympathetic relatable portrait and the film allows her to be at every turn. You're so swept up in the electricity that it no longer matters how much is true, how much was dramatised, how much actually happened that way.
In fact all the actors are at the top of their game. And Gillespie uses a soundtrack so well that's it's notable compared to how lacklustre soundtracks have been in films recently. The film also manages to touch upon the media's role a little bit, and it has a blistering portrait of domestic violence that is normalised in a frighteningly real way.
Craig Gillespie has long since been one of my favourite directors, making little, overlooked films that delight in a mixture of creative and conventional ways. Here's he's renewed my interest in the biopic and he's told a story with the perfect amounts of normality and madness that a true story has.