Official Trailer
Our Review
- Thomasin McKenzie, Shea Whigham, Anne Hathaway
- December 1st 2023
- William Oldroyd
Anne Hathaway plays an alluring prison psychologist alongside Thomasin McKenzie in this 1960s psychological thriller.
Anne Hathaway has come a long way since The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada days.
In Eileen, directed by Lady Macbeth’s William Oldroyd, she plays a mysterious but glamorous psychologist named Rebecca who joins a boys’ prison and finds a friend in the secretary Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie).
Eileen doesn’t have much going on in her life except work and caring for her alcoholic father Jim (Shea Whigham) so she is thrilled to have a friend, and perhaps something more. She becomes obsessed with Rebecca, who uses her devotion to her advantage.
Set in the harsh winter in 1960s Massachusetts, Eileen, the film, seems like it’s going to follow a similar path to Todd Haynes’ Carol at first because there is an age gap and a palpable sense of attraction between the leads. Rebecca’s attention helps Eileen comes out of her shell and realise what she wants from her life.
But the comparisons to Carol eventually...
