A cheerfully indecent, gloriously naughty little film from early 2024 has just landed on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic, so if you missed this one in theaters, here’s your chance to catch up with it.
I plan to watch Wicked Little Letters again, in fact: I predicted back in the spring that it might become “a future comfort movie for me,” so time to get going on that. Based on a true story from 1920s England, it gives us a prim and proper “spinster” in Olivia Colman’s Edith, who believes her rowdy, earthy neighbor Rose (Jessie Buckley) is the author of the series of vile, vulgar “poison pen” letters she has been the unfortunate recipient of.
Fashioned as a whodunnit at first, this delightfully sneaky, wonderfully intriguing movie quickly morphs into a feminist exploration of why women keep secrets and still their discontent. Colman and Buckley — screen goddesses both — are a riot butting heads, and the movie overall is funny as hell and bursting with impudent energy.
US: streaming on Netflix; rent/buy at Prime and Apple TV
UK: streaming on Netflix; rent/buy at Prime and Apple TV
See Wicked Little Letters at Letterboxd for more viewing options, including in all other global regions.
Thanks for the reminder about this movie. I just watched tonight and was delighted.
I live to serve.
In that case, I have a request or 20. 😆
But seriously, I finally watched Women Talking and came here to see your take. I was quite surprised to discover that you hadn’t reviewed it. I found it a stunning, jaw-dropping, heart-rending film. So many layers of feeling and experience that speak to the way women experience the world and are treated (or mistreated) in it. And how they could respond to it all.
I’d love it if you’d share your thoughts and feelings about this film.
I saw “Wicked Little Letters” at my local arthouse cinema–thank God we have one–this past spring and thought it was an absolute hoot! I haven’t laughed out loud so much in a movie theatre in a long time. It enjoyed a long run, it was so popular with audiences. And it was notable that young Miss Alisha Weir was appearing in “Wicked Little Letters” at a downtown theatre at the same time as she was starring in “Abigail” at the cineplex out in the suburbs.