Daisy Ridley's isolation is making her very suspicious of her husband - and she's likely right - in this drama that she came up with the idea for, and written by her husband, who she must be on very good terms with. Film Brain reviews.
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00:00Daisy Ridley gets suspicious in the drama thriller Magpie, which she came up with the idea for and is rather ironically written by her husband, actor Tom Bateman.
00:08Ridley's marriage with Shehzad Latif begins to crack when their daughter is cast in a film alongside Matilda Lutz, the subject of a scandalous leak.
00:17This is one of Ridley's best performances to date, playing a mother stuck at her country home with her baby while her husband goes to the set,
00:24and the isolation isn't helping with her postpartum depression.
00:27And Ridley does a lot of style work here as she gradually realises that the seemingly idyllic life has become a tomb of unhappiness that she feels trapped in,
00:35and the anger, jealousy and resentment that builds out of that.
00:40But Ridley has every right to be distrustful of Latif as his wandering eye obsesses over Lutz, and he's very unsympathetic in every sense of the word.
00:50Director Sam Yates keeps the tension on a slow simmer, aided by Hitchcockian strings in the score which reaches a boiling point at a cathartic climax.