A too-pure young man training to be a doctor and heir to immense wealth becomes entangled with Cherry, a seductive young woman whose motives remain ambiguous. Perspectives alternate between Cherry and Laura, the mother, so audiences align with whichever viewpoint is presented. Lavish interiors and idealised London streets frame baroque events, blood, lies and eruptive violence that create compulsive, nail-biting tension. The film mutes clear answers about who is psychopathic, replacing certainty with crisscrossing erotic and possessive energy that reads like Greek tragedy. The narrative centers on class, maternal possessiveness, rivalry and the inevitability of destructive attraction. Olivia Cooke stars; Robin Wright directs and plays Laura.
A too-pure young man, training to be a doctor, scion of the wealthiest imaginable family, meets a smoking hot young woman, but is she who she seems? His mother thinks not. The quickest way to describe The Girlfriend is to say that it's sort of perfect. The perspectives shift between that of Cherry, the girlfriend (Olivia Cooke), and that of Laura, the mother (Robin Wright, who also directs). Whoever's take you are watching, that's who you believe.
Baroque events, blood and guts, flagrant lies it all unfurls in exquisite interiors and idealised London street scenes. It is compulsive. I bit my nails to shreds. It's not clear who's the psychopath, but someone is and the crisscrossing erotic tension gives it the inevitability of Greek tragedy. People this irresistible to one another never end up at peace. This is a triangular love story, Wright begins, speaking to me from the countryside;
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