“There are just some people who should never reproduce,” says a curtain-twitching busybody about one of her neighbors in a drab housing estate in Harlow, England. It’s the kind of…
,” it’s a casual shot fired in an especially unhappy case of internal working-class warfare. Toughly updating an age-old strain of gossip-fueled neighborhood morality play, this story of female friendship undone by domestic tragedy plays as a kind of Sirkian melodrama for the Daily Mail age of tabloid hysteria — altogether an audacious, promise-confirming feature debut for Boulifa, whose shorts “Rate Me” and “The Curse” both took top honors in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
It’s been several years since Burley, an auspicious presence in “Donkey Punch” and Andrea Arnold’s “Wuthering Heights,” has had a big-screen role of this magnitude. Perhaps that partially accounts for the restless, yearning energy she brings here to the role of Lucy, a blue-haired, formerly hard-partying Essex girl who, as the film opens, has surprised seemingly everyone — herself included — by becoming a mother for the first time.
Working in quick but vivid strokes, Boulifa and his stars precisely establish the dynamics of personality and power in the title characters’ lifelong friendship, whether they’re offering each other relationship advice or letting their hair down to Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind” in a local nightclub.
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