She Will (film)

She Will is a 2021 British psychological horror comedy-drama film. It is a directorial debut by Charlotte Colbert who is also the writer for the film.[1] The film was produced by Jessica Malik and Bob Last with Dario Argento being an executive producer and Edward R. Pressman.[2] The film is starring an ensemble cast, including Alice Krige, Malcolm McDowell, John McCrea, Rupert Everett, Amy Manson, Jonathan Aris, Daniel Lapaine and Kota Eberhardt. The BIFA nominated film won the golden leopard for best first film at the Locarno Film Festival.

She Will
Directed byCharlotte Colbert
Written byCharlotte Colbert
Kitty Percy
Produced byJessica Malik
Bob Last
Starring
CinematographyJamie D. Ramsay
Edited byMatyas Fekete
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Music byClint Mansell
Production
companies
A Popcorn Group
Pressman Films
Intermission Films
Release date
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A former film star, Veronica Ghent, goes to a healing retreat in Scotland with her nurse Desi Hatoum after a double mastectomy. The place where she stays is the site where women were burnt as witches. Their ashes fill the land and give her the power to enact revenge in her dreams.

Cast

Filming

She Will was shot in Aviemore and Glasgow, Scotland.[1]

Release

She Will won a Golden Leopard for Best First Film at Locarno Film Festival, and was nominated by BIFA following its UK premiere in official selection at the London Film Festival.

Reception

The film was described as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance”[3] by Jessica Kiang in Variety and Alfonso Cuarón has said that “it sits in the tradition of great psychological horror films [which] leaves one questioning long after [it] is finished[4]”.

“Colbert is nothing if not defiant, and determined. Others have been here before her, but she’s found a new way in.”[5] screen daily.

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting wrote "Between the haunting score and Colbert's effortless style, She Will eschews a conventional narrative and instead casts an atmospheric spell through tactile, dreamy visuals".[6]

According to Jessica Kiang of Variety, the film "administers a potent dose of #MeToo vengeance, all while wearing its nasty sense of humor like a red-lipstick grin applied to a perfectly masklike face".[7]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90%.[8]

References
  1. Thorne, Will (7 August 2021). "Charlotte Colbert and Rupert Everett on Exploring 'How Trauma Blurs the Boundaries of Time' in Locarno Horror Feature 'She Will'". Variety.
  2. Wiseman, Andreas (22 September 2021). "Horror Icon Dario Argento Joins Charlotte Colbert's Genre Pic 'She Will'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  3. Silva, R. R (2010-02-01). "Conners' Teacher Rating Scale has limited ability to predict DSM-IV ADHD in referred schoolchildren". Evidence-Based Mental Health. 13 (1): 10–10. doi:10.1136/ebmh.13.1.10. ISSN 1362-0347.
  4. Yossman, K. J. (2021-08-03). "'She Will': First Clip of Locarno Selection From Debut Director Charlotte Colbert (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  5. Halligan, Fionnuala (2021-08-05). "'She Will': Locarno Review". Screen. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  6. Navarro, Meagan (26 February 2021). "[Fantastic Fest Review] 'She Will' Casts a Beguiling Spell of Retribution". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  7. Kiang, Jessica (15 August 2021). "'She Will' Review: A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance". Variety.
  8. "She Will (2021)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
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