A harrowing portrait of mental illness displayed for the male gaze, this gothic psychological drama set in Victorian Paris is like plunging into a beautiful, mesmeric dream where the mad ultimately inherit the earth.
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‘Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane’ by Paul Thomas Murphy (review)
Greenwich, 1871. On an unlit lane traversed by a brook, a policeman finds a young woman who has been so viciously beaten that she is barely recognisable as a human being. She later dies of her injuries. The brutality of the act, the ineptitude of police, and the rock-solid Victorian class system will lead to…
Hysteria (2011): Film Review
Despite numerous unfortunate clichés in both character and plot, almost all of which may be put down to this film’s being a romantic comedy (a genre that Her Ladyship usually abhors), Hysteria is a rather sweet film that somehow, inexplicably, makes you forgive its many faults and enjoy yourself tremendously in the process. Director Tanya…