Trap for Cinderella (15) 100 mins ***
Writer-director Iain Softley’s run of agreeably
pulpy entertainments – remember Hackers?
The Skeleton Key? – continues with
this slowburn mystery-thriller, adapted from Sébastien Japrisot’s novel. Socialite
Micky (Tuppence Middleton) emerges from an explosion days before she’s due to
inherit her late aunt’s fashion empire with urgent questions about the
whereabouts of Do (Alexandra Roach), her lovelorn BFF-turned-put-upon PA. Some
forceful female characterisation is undermined by the attempt to get Tuppence’s
thrupennies into every other shot, but it’s a small miracle that, operating
just a few notches north of British cinema’s poverty line, Softley can still
turn in something moderately stylish and more than partly watchable. The
semi-absurd premise cloaks a barbed take – more Girl Model than The Devil
Wears Prada – on the beauty regime, and the lengths it’ll go to to ensure
business as usual.
Trap for Cinderella is in selected cinemas nationwide.
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