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Prima Facie review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant barrister blazes in sexual assault drama
Adaptation of the international stage hit stars a commanding Erivo as Tessa, whose career defending rape suspects is undermined by experience A blazingly fierce, effortlessly commanding central performance from Cynthia Erivo, like something from classical drama, powers this movie adaptation of Suzie Miller’s international stage hit (which starred Sheridan Harbridge in the original Australian production , and then Jodie Comer in London’s West End ). Miller has written the screenplay, with Susanna White directing . In the theatre, it is a bravura solo spectacle, a stream-of-consciousness torrent which puts you right inside the trauma and the terror. The movie opens things out to a more conventionally presented drama and we lose something of that overwhelming moment-by-moment access to the lead character’s inner thoughts. But the resulting story is robustly constructed and tremendously acte
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Adaptation of the international stage hit stars a commanding Erivo as Tessa, whose career defending rape suspects is undermined by experience A blazingly fierce, effortlessly commanding central performance from Cynthia Erivo, like something from classical drama, powers this movie adaptation of Suzie Miller’s international stage hit (which starred Sheridan Harbridge in the original Australian production , and then Jodie Comer in London’s West End ). Miller has written the screenplay, with Susanna White directing . In the theatre, it is a bravura solo spectacle, a stream-of-consciousness torrent which puts you right inside the trauma and the terror. The movie opens things out to a more conventionally presented drama and we lose something of that overwhelming moment-by-moment access to the lead character’s inner thoughts. But the resulting story is robustly constructed and tremendously acte
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Prima Facie review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant barrister blazes in sexual assault drama, Adaptation of the international stage hit stars a commanding Erivo as Tessa, whose career defending rape suspects is undermined by experience A blazingly fierce, effortlessly commanding central performance from Cynthia Erivo, like something from classical drama, powers this movie adaptation of Suzie Miller’s international stage hit (which starred Sheridan Harbridge in the original Australian production , and then Jodie Comer in London’s West End ). Miller has written the screenplay, with Susanna White directing . In the theatre, it is a bravura solo spectacle, a stream-of-consciousness torrent which puts you right inside the trauma and the terror. The movie opens things out to a more conventionally presented drama and we lose something of that overwhelming moment-by-moment access to the lead character’s inner thoughts. But the resulting story is robustly constructed and tremendously acte
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