Title - Miller's Girl
Production - Lionsgate Films, Point Grey Pictures
Starring - Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Dominczyk, Gideon Adlon, Bashir Salahuddin, Christine Adams
Writer - Jade Halley Bartlett
Director - Jade Halley Bartlett
Release - 26 January 2024
I would describe this as in a very similar vein to Cruel Intentions, though with the ever taboo student-teacher relationship making the attraction even more forbidden.
There was a great balance between danger and sexual tension; with each heightening the other, making for a great combo. Couple that with a great writing in the literary space, Jenna Ortega's voice over sounded even sexier.
Writer-director Jade Halley Bartlett with her very first movie, she has a great eye to capture and create a scene with a lot of steam, and it's exactly what this movie was about. Because if it wasn't that, then this movie wouldn't have worked.
There were a couple of things that were left in vagueness so the audience didn't know what happened exactly in the middle of the movie. And then right after that, Martin Freeman's character - Mr. Miller - made quite an about-face towards Ortega's character; and that was quite a sudden change of heart that was never clear. And that created in my mind a few different ways that he could have handled the situation better.
Ortega had a monologue staring down at Mr. Miller that somehow wasn't as effective as it should have been. But her intensity as the woman scorned and seeking revenge was beautifully scary.
The ending shot was meant again to be vague but this time it may have been a little too vague.
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