A Mixture Of Jarring And Brilliant

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2019)

There's much to enjoy here - especially Allison Janney's and Margot Robbie's towering performances as mother and daughter. I was also struck by the cinematography of the skating sequences, which was visceral and beautiful at the same time. I was disquieted by the tone, however; I can understand the comedic edge, given the essential absurdity of much that happened. But when that comedy plays round, and occasionally bleeds over in to, the edges of elements of the story of domestic violence, it jars and feels distasteful. It can sometimes seem to be the work of middle-class people sneering and giggling at the lives of 'the others'.