“Nuanced Revenge Thriller ‘Femme’ Is Anything but a Drag”

“George MacKay kicks off the third act of Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s feature debut, Femme, with what should by now be considered a prototypical MacKay exercise: Nigh-untraceable facial tweaks. As Preston, the film’s co-lead, MacKay spends most of the preceding 70 minutes in attack mode, a rattlesnake coiled and ready to sink its fangs into any putz foolish enough to handle him. In rarer moments, he is disarmed by Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), the film’s lead. In the rarest moment, he wakes up in Jules’ bed, and his eyes stretch with animal panic, slacken into bewilderment, and then relax into what he’s sought all along: Contentment.” (Full review at Paste Magazine.)

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