Bachelorette (15) 87 mins ***
A flop Stateside, Leslye
Headland’s abrasive adaptation of her own stageplay splits the difference
between Bridesmaids and TV’s Girls: the attempts of uptight Kirsten
Dunst, coke-snorting Isla Fisher and walking bruise Lizzy Caplan to keep a
pal’s gown intact through a long night’s bachelorette celebrations build toward
a tipping point of sourness, before a Proclaimers song unexpectedly cues the
movie equivalent of make-up sex. Headland has comic smarts enough to venture
both filthily revisionist readings of My
So-Called Life and riffs on the Potsdam conference, while refusing her
audience any comforting safety nets: loathe the central screw-ups, loathe the
film. Still, the approach retains that edge regularly removed from more
commercially amenable comedies, and the cast make merry-ish: in a less
imperfect world, it would have made a star out of Caplan, busy painting over
all her lookalike Zooey Deschanel’s rainbows with heartbreak and kohl.
Bachelorette opens in selected cinemas from today.
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