Emerald Fennell wrote and directed Promising Young Woman, a 2020 American thriller with Carey Mulligan at the top of the cast. Revenge is its subject: a young woman, still carrying a tragedy from years before, turns her attention to predatory men.
What is Promising Young Woman about?
Something happened in the past that the woman at the centre of this story has never been able to set down. It follows her into the present and decides how she spends her time. The men who cross her path and behave like predators find out that she is not what they took her for, and that she arrived with a plan of her own. From there the film tracks her private campaign, combining the tension of a crime story with the drama of a person who cannot let an old wrong rest. What exactly took place years ago, who was involved and how far she is ready to go are questions the story answers gradually, and they are best met without advance knowledge.
About the cast
Carey Mulligan is the first name in the cast, joined by Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge and Laverne Cox. Emerald Fennell is credited both as writer and as director, so the script and the staging come from the same hand.
Context & significance
Promising Young Woman is listed under crime, drama and thriller, and it uses the old form of the revenge story to look at how predatory behaviour is treated and who ends up paying for it. It is an American production released in 2020 with a running time of 113 minutes. The subject matter is adult: the plot grows out of mistreatment and its aftermath, and viewers should expect themes of abuse and retribution throughout, which makes it a film for grown-up audiences and not for family viewing.
Watching Promising Young Woman on Ktime
Promising Young Woman is on K-Time with a Persian dub and with Persian subtitles, so it can be watched in Farsi audio or in the original English with Farsi text. Reading this page needs no sign-in; playing the film requires logging in to a K-Time account. The service is built for Persian speakers living outside Iran, and its menus, search and player are all in Farsi.